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The Lion in Winter The Public Good in Private Lives

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Question What does the Lion in Winter suggest about the following in the medieval aristocratic culture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?

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MarriageAnnulment GovernmentSex AlliancesDiplomacy ReligionWar FamiliesWomen PowerAge LandFeudalism

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How do some of these themes intersect in the Lion in Winter? Do these ideas correspond to the reality of the Middle Ages as you know it?

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The hair, once reddish, now turning to grey, of middle height, round- headed, his eyes brilliant as lightning when rouses, his face lion-like, surmounted by a fine mane, his deep chest, strong arms and bow legs. Peter of Blois (1135-1211)

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Genealogy of Henry II

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Thomas Becket (can 1120-1170)

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Legal Reforms

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Henrys Empire

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Henry and Eleanor

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Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca 1122-1204)

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First Marriage

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Medieval Consanguinity Table to Seven Degrees

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Henry and Eleanors Children

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Richard I (1189- 1199) Worst King Ever?

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John of England (199-1216)

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John Lackland

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Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany

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Philip II of France (r 1180-1223)

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France at the end of Philips Rule