T. Asbridge, The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones (2015), 338
A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Foul as it is, Hell is made fouler by the presence of John
A man of forty-eight years, who had presided over the disintegration of the great Angevin Empire and brought the kingdom of England to its knees. A number of chroniclers confidently predicted that the late king would be condemned to Hell. One even added that: 'Foul as it is, Hell is made fouler by the presence of John,'
T. Asbridge, The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones (2015), 338
He is citing Matthew Paris, I think. This otherwise excellent book is marred by the absence of proper footnotes and instead their irritating replacement by textual references in the back
T. Asbridge, The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones (2015), 338
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