I do not respond well to Public Radio's endless flood of woe. The people do suffer. I do not doubt that. But, here I have confined myself to my generous studio unit. Thus, like Hamlet's father, Dozing on my side in my garden the ministers of political correctness approach and pour some poisoned into the open door of my ear. Ah, but I have made confession this morning. with others of my ilk by way of Zoom..
Practicing distraction and denial , another historical novel dealing with the court of Hen3ry VII. Whence cometh that grievous wind? Can historians put it on syphilis or diabetes? Diabetes, of course come to mind. Why not the other. He demonstrated his reputation and the other. Hen3ry did act out his reputation as one of Europe's great Lotharios. He made Mozart's Don Juan a looser. But what does the historian, novel writer or not, have to hand to bolster such claims.
Plague! yes our old friend, the Black Death subsonic plague, classification Yersinia pestis spread by fleas. Got to have the Latin.
This all rolls into some kind of King Rat ball. H M as we shall hence forth refer to him lived the life of a young sport up untill the death of his older brother Author., H M had actualy gone off to Oxford to study for theology. Thus did all the second sons of the titled and landed nobility and all the wanna-be's These wanna-be's do not make honey. That task remains to another species of Bee.
Arthur's death puts big dark holes in H M VII's plans to secure the Tudor line for the future in England and Europe.
H M VII move H M VII prince something or other to Prince Of Wales and making him heir apparent. In English usage this means that when the old man pops, H M VIII takes over as Big Dog. It also means that H M VII forces H M VIII to Wed Prince A's intended bride.
This little gambit works this way. Catherine Of Aragon classifies as a Piece Of Work - 7 no trump .doubled and redoubled.. This woman had enough hauteur for three dozen Valkyries.
More that that, though, as partial fulfillment of the betrothal portion of the process, Catherine's relatives who included future Kings of Spain ahd given over much goods. Not cattle, hoses, and sheep silly. Kulture has gone way beyond that . No, it included, lands, gold, and a lot of it. So much so infact that H M VII vowed to find a stable hand if necessrry to marry Catherine just to keep the dower in England.
Right royal dowries – Almost History (vaguelyinteresting.co.uk)
In the citation above the reader will see a prodigeous list of wealth. Whether England would have stood or fallen based on the keeping of the dowery, no one states for certain.
Butonward, the subject deals with a subnject less ...
H M III shows little or no sign in his latr years of having syphlis. The wound does act that way. I hangs around to long. It opens up on its own too often in ways that do not speak of syphlis.
But, the black death seals the argument ofr me. Whre in a population does the syphilis germ hang out when not busy destroying human tissue. It finds various quiet parts of our bodies. When the opportunity strikes, the germ takes a ride to the new host .
From sociology the question arises who most often abides in this population of folk who have the spirochete waiting in their system to jumpo to another person. Any one can further this end. But, iften this popluation dos not have the well born, the self restrained. Even high grade prostetues see to their health and so take themselves out of the disease reservoir . This they do out of the understanding of professional protection. diseased whores don't trick for b ig bucks
H M VII married or not had his whores. High Class ones, He did. O, but you can be you sweet bippy he did. women fell over themselves they did. Local mil maids and tavern wenches waited at the back of very long line. Nobles and wanna-bes kept the lines in order. Cardinals, chancellors, lawyers, and you name it saw to it. Tee women passed every cleanliness test the medieval mind could think of. -- ain't no bug here.
Now, time for the other big bad bug to come upon the scene . Riding in the gut of a flea which flea hands from the fur of a rat or mouse or cat or dog, but mostly a rait the bacterium odious deadly and vile.
The bacterium evolves in east Asia. There, possibly people live differently. Maybe that accounts for womething. But probably not. South East Asia as a land mass lies much further South than most of Europe. It's shores lie lower than do those of Europe. Mangrove Swamps protext the shore line from erosion. The swamps also give a home to the Asian Tiger a bitg pussy cat. Always carry a bag full of Big macs when going out in this region . On seeing a tiger, gently toss a big mac at the cat while you back up slowly and say there kitty kitty.
The Black Death swept through Europe repeatedly . The righ and will off fled to the country side. They did not always escape. Some places found successful ways of coping while others did not. The poor invariably suffred more than any other class.
The poor also more likely made up the women who lived out the role as whore in their villages and towns. With their deaths in large numbers also dies out the members of the syphilis reservoir. Hence H M VIII has less of a chance
