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[angevin2]

So I've been rereading the medieval poem Richard the Redeless, for diss purposes (my diss mostly deals with Renaissance texts, of course, but I do glance back sometimes at the medieval background), and just now I've been looking at the section which criticizes Richard for excessive granting of liveries. It's all good and useful stuff about how the

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[erstwhiletexan]

That is a TERRIBLY simplistic way to gloss "estate." :(

[angevin2]

I know! Silly editor.

[queeniefox]

On a completly unrelated note, I misread 'medieval poem' as 'medieval porn' and now feel slightly let down. But only slightly because your mis-taking is rather good.

[angevin2]

Well, there is the bit where Richard is described as "so wankel and wayke wexe in the hammes / That they had no myghte to amende your greues," and the line about how bad counselors "stirid [spurred] you stouttely till ye stombled all" -- which may not be very good porn but it is rather kinky. ;)

[tempestsarekind]

so of course in a way he really is a text. Like all monarchs are when they're no longer monarchs

You would probably be displeased to know that I could not get my students interested in "For God's sake let us sit upon the ground..." or the bit where Richard tells the Queen to tell stories of him at *all*. I felt like I was waving around, going, "he's turning himself into a history play!" and they were all, "..."

[angevin2]

Students have insufficient love for metatextuality.

Silly students.