“…an illiterate shepherdess girl who claimed that voices from God were instructing her to take charge of her nation’s army and lead it to victory…Legend states that Joan came to Scotland to be trained in the art of warfare in a remote stretch of Argyll…” The above is taken from this lengthy and informative article… Continue reading Joan of Arc trained in Scotland….?
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Even by Tudor and Stuart Standards, Edward IV’s Marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was Invalid
I’ve discovered a wonderfully detailed monograph written by a 21st-century professor of history (whose specialty is the social history of early modern England) that illustrates very nicely that the medieval canon laws governing pre-contracted marriages that resulted into the dissolution of Edward IV’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville survived, intact and without alteration, through the Reformation.… Continue reading Even by Tudor and Stuart Standards, Edward IV’s Marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was Invalid
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