Helen Castor

Blood & Roses, She-Wolves, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, THE EAGLE AND THE HART

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@hselftax @Lane_M_Jackson @holland_tom I would love to do one. Will see if I can find out what the possibilities are...

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

As always, an absolute pleasure to talk history with @holland_tom - this time, about three extraordinary women and what it meant to be a medieval queen

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Starting today on @TheRestHistory, a 3 part series on THE SHE WOLVES: the great queens of medieval England.

The incomparable @hrcastor on the empress MATILDA; ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE; & ISABELLA OF FRANCE.

Massive, massive drama!

All 3 episodes here: https://t.co/NNgwZQXyfF

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@Lane_M_Jackson @nfinitemonkey @holland_tom Seconded! You might be interested in this? https://t.co/9iBSk6h3Yw

[Lane McLeod Jackson @Lane_M_Jackson]

@hrcastor @holland_tom Just arrived. Can't wait!

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@Lane_M_Jackson @holland_tom 🙏👑 Enjoy!

[Ephie Bernstein @EphieBernstein]

I do enjoy good historical detective work.
@NathenAmin has a great piece out this morning on the origins of the name Wars of the Roses.
If you are not familiar with Nathen’s Substack, Hiraeth, I recommend it. I credit @hrcastor for making me aware of it.

Where does the name Wars of the Roses come from?

and were they known as the Cousins’ Wars?

https://t.co/vZNhqMlnJY

[Rosemary Griggs @RAGriggsauthor]

Exeter Cathedral. Two swans with collars and chained with their necks entwined The heraldic swans of Bohun family at the feet of effigy of Margaret de Bohun, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303–1377).

#MonumentsMonday #exetercathedral

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@IFeudvarski @holland_tom @TheRestHistory 🙏

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@TheTurningEarth @TheRestHistory @holland_tom ❤️🙏

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

https://t.co/9Qw7DGH27b

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

Which team are you: Capulets or Montagues?
We’re in Norwich, not Verona, but these are mean streets and dangerous times for the Pastons and their men…
Link ⬇️

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@EphieBernstein Thank you for posting this, Ephie - I’d managed to miss the date so far today, and am so glad to be reminded of her

[Ephie Bernstein @EphieBernstein]

On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen after an English-backed church court condemned her as a relapsed heretic.
She was about 19.
In 1456, twenty-five years after her execution, a rehabilitation trial nullified the verdict.
My favorite book on Joan is @hrcastor ‘s Joan of Arc: A History, which does a wonderful job placing her life in the world of war, politics, and belief that shaped it.

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Hand-coloured frontispiece to Christopher Saxton's Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales (1579) (RCT, HM CIII)

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

A 13thC arm reliquary from the Southern Netherlands (Met Museum), because you can never have enough of arm reliquaries..

[Minoo Dinshaw @MinooFramroze]

Absolutely. Zachary Mason’s Lost Books of the Odyssey has a lovely passage about how the platonic chess king & queen are HVI & Marg of Anjou - red not white of course!

[Friendless Churches @friendschurches]

The oxblood-coloured rood screen at St Ellyw's, Llanelieu in Powys is a remarkable medieval survival.

1/11

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Hadn’t quite got the hang of it yet had they

[Get History @GetHistory]

'The point of being a king is not only the rights you have: those rights exist because you have very profound duties to the kingdom you rule.' @hrcastor talks to us about kingship and tyranny during the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV. https://t.co/ueZNHQIZmx

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@erasmuse @antonhowes Oh yes! definitely the Duke of Suffolk on his way into exile 1450

[Helen Castor @hrcastor]

@antonhowes Can’t wait to read the whole thing! This is such an interesting parallel to the demands of 1381…