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1 The Lion in Winter The Public Good in Private Lives

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

3 MarriageAnnulment GovernmentSex AlliancesDiplomacy ReligionWar FamiliesWomen PowerAge LandFeudalism

4 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?

5 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)

6 Genealogy of Henry II

7 Thomas Becket (can 1120-1170)

8 Legal Reforms

9 Henry’s Empire

10 Henry and Eleanor

11 Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca 1122-1204)

12 First Marriage

13 Medieval Consanguinity Table to Seven Degrees

14 Henry and Eleanor’s Children

15 Richard I (1189- 1199) Worst King Ever?

16 John of England (199-1216)

17 John Lackland…

18 Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany

19 Philip II of France (r 1180-1223)

20 France at the end of Philip’s Rule


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