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Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

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thehangingtree said:
The dear lady should not fret. Her 'questioning' is a holy event and will be done brutally with all due respect!
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It is well known that the inquisitors used to ask this kind of question: please, gentlewoman, with all due respect, would you be so kind as to tell us whether or not you are a heretic? (Meaning: if not, we'll have to make you swallow a dozen litres of water...)
 
ducon007 said:
"Supplice de Brunehaut" (Death of Brunehilde), by Jean-Baptiste Cariven (1865)

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Better than fiction : the Merovings! Juicy murderous feuds on the debris of the Western Roman Empire. Real history dwarfing any sorts of games of thrones. The murder of Queen Galswintha, Brunehaut's sister, in 568, on order of one of the most vicious murder queens in history, and who had also a hand in Brunehaut's assassination : Queen Fredegund. Painting (1846) by Eugene Philastre (1827-1886).

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Loxuru said:
Better than fiction : the Merovings! Juicy murderous feuds on the debris of the Western Roman Empire. Real history dwarfing any sorts of games of thrones. The murder of Queen Galswintha, Brunehaut's sister, in 568, on order of one of the most vicious murder queens in history, and who had also a hand in Brunehaut's assassination : Queen Fredegund. Painting (1846) by Eugene Philastre (1827-1886).

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The story of Fredegund and Brunehaut plays out like a bad western : we wait all those decades for Brunehaut's revenge, but finally Fredegund dies peaceably and her son continuous her nasty legacy....
 
coldturkey said:
The story of Fredegund and Brunehaut plays out like a bad western : we wait all those decades for Brunehaut's revenge, but finally Fredegund dies peaceably and her son continuous her nasty legacy....
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Fredegund's alledged crime record :
1) the murder of Galswintha (who had married king Chilperic of whom Fredegund was a mistress).
2) murder of Sigibert, Chilperic's half brother and husband of Brunehaut (hence the feud)
3) murder of Aldovera, Chilperic's first wife
4) Murder of Adovera's son Clovis from her marriage with Chillperic
5) rape of Audovera's daughter, ruling her out for a role in succession.
6) attempt to murder Brunehaut
7) attempt to murder of Gunthram, king of Burgundy
8) attempt to murder her own daughter Rigundis (for the latter dismissed her as a common, while she was the daughter of a king)
9) murder of bisshop Praetextus of Rouen
10) (most probably) murder of her husband Chilperic for taking another mistress

The assassination of Brunehaut was indeed after Fredegund's death, by the latter's son Clovis, since the feud had gone on.
 
melissa said:
The Arena pic was removed because you posted it with the comment that it was "self censored" implying that you were merely saving the moderators a job. To drive your message home you did it in the style of redaction with the black rectangle. That pic was posted with the intention of taunting the moderators. You went on to ask Barbaria1 for an explanation. However according to the log it was Phlebas who reinstated the pic having first brushed out the black rectangle. You have already been given an explanation of why we have the rule about minors on at least three occasions and now you wish to drag all the moderators into an argument. The No Minors rule on this site was introduced by @ImageMaker back in 2012. If you want the rule changed to allow children in paintings on your "Erotic helplessness.." thread then he is the man to ask.
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I agree and I stand with what Melissa said.
 
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