Salamanca, just war, and the conflict between end and means

[justben]

I realized recently that I have embarrassingly little understanding of the history of Spain. So in an effort to ameliorate the situation, I've been spending some time today Wikipediaing about the topic. In doing so, I ran across reference to the School of Salamanca, with which I was previously unfamiliar. It's an interesting read. In particular,

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[anais_pf]

In answer to your questions: hell if I know! But give me a jingle if you ever decide to study Eleanor of Aquitaine. She rocked.

[justben]

Aw, you just say that because she fucked France and England, went on crusade with the former, bore a couple of the more famous names in English history to the latter, ruled England herself when her son went off to crusade, and all around kicked lots of Middle Ages ass.

And besides, just how many people are cool enough to be portrayed by both Katherine Hepburn and Glenn Close? Yeah, she really was that cool.

So all that being fine and good, I'm left with a deep curiosity: how in the world do I know you, and what brings you over to my corner of LJ?

[anais_pf]

You don't know me, actually. I sometimes read my LJ friends' friends lists, and you are on brendastarr's friends list. Of course, she doesn't actually know me, either, but hey! Isn't that what LJ is for? Reading what other interesting people have to say? And sometimes commenting on it? Yup.

[justben]

Cool cool. Just curious :-)