Boring Moments in History
Richard Grafton, on Richard II's 1394 Irish expedition:
This yere king Richard made a voyage into Ireland, which was nothing profitable, nor honourable vnto him, and therefore the Wryters seeme to thinke it scant worth the notyng.
That amuses me entirely too much. "This was pointless and boring, so I'm not going to talk about it." It is almost the entirety of the chronicle's entry for 1394.
Froissart had plenty to say about it, but I guess Grafton was not interested in things like persuading the Irish kings to wear pants. I do not understand these Elizabethan chroniclers, sometimes.
(You know, I had vowed to slack off this evening, and since the ongoing Plow Through the Chronicles project is diss reading, I kind of fail at slacking.)
This yere king Richard made a voyage into Ireland, which was nothing profitable, nor honourable vnto him, and therefore the Wryters seeme to thinke it scant worth the notyng.
That amuses me entirely too much. "This was pointless and boring, so I'm not going to talk about it." It is almost the entirety of the chronicle's entry for 1394.
Froissart had plenty to say about it, but I guess Grafton was not interested in things like persuading the Irish kings to wear pants. I do not understand these Elizabethan chroniclers, sometimes.
(You know, I had vowed to slack off this evening, and since the ongoing Plow Through the Chronicles project is diss reading, I kind of fail at slacking.)