This common word has many meanings: Williams writes that it derived from Latin: tradere - to hand over or deliver. “It is easy to see how a general word for matters handed down from father to son could become specialised, within one form of thought, to the idea of necessary respect and duty… Tradition survives … Continue reading #AtoZAprilChallenge: Tradition
Monarchy
Brandenburg and her capital: #longing
I dream of the city, as it was, long before Frederick, not the capital of a respected and feared kingdom, with a formidable army, but the main settlement of a peaceful people, in the midst of lakes and thick forests, surrounded by wilderness. Then came the long war, the uninterrupted banditry, the destructions, the killing … Continue reading Brandenburg and her capital: #longing
#AtoZChallenge: April 20, 2013 ~ Reims (and the Smiling Angel)
Reims The Remi, a tribe of the Gauls, founded you as their capital a century BC. By 260 AD you were Christian. In your cathedral, Notre-Dame de Reims, many Kings of France were crowned. In 496 Clovis was baptised on your altar. There stood Joan of Arc, at the side of Charles VII when he … Continue reading #AtoZChallenge: April 20, 2013 ~ Reims (and the Smiling Angel)
The last Knight
You were slain on the field of Bosworth, you and your men fighting against the hideous traitors of Lancaster, one against ten. They mutilated your body, but your loyal supporters rescued you and hid your remains in that little chapel in the city of Leicester. The Tudors, usurpers, regicides, liars and serial killers, were so … Continue reading The last Knight
