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A Proud Taste For Scarlet and Miniver Wiki Post #1 Friday, March 23

1. Eleanor and Louis were betrothed during there teenage years instead of when they were kids like what usually happened in those days. Eleanor was not betrothed at a young age because her father believed that he would never die. Abbot Suger tells Louis about her father. When Louis asks the Abbot why Eleanor has not been betrothed he says "I think that the fair Eleanor was saved because her father and grandfather thought that they would never die" (Konigsburg 20). Suger then tells a tale of how Eleanor's father prayed to God and told Him to give him strength to defeat someone in battle. Louis was not betrothed because he was a second child. He only became heir after his brother died. Neither Eleanor nor Louis were betrothed at young ages but for very different reasons.

2. Eleanor makes several choices that effect the people around her. One major choice that she makes is to move down to a valley when Louis tells them to make camp on some flat land on the mountain that they were climbing. When Louis's group arrives, they cannot find Eleanor. While they are looking for her the Turks ambush and kill many soldiers. When he arrives where Eleanor is Louis says to Geoffrey "You sir, are guilty of treason... you shall hang in the morning" (Konigsburg 61). Louis realizes that the reason they were ambushed was because they were not ready because of their search for Eleanor. If Geoffrey had not let Eleanor go down, they would have been ready when the attack came. Eleanor's decision to go down to the valley was a mistake and was the reason that lots of soldiers died.

Wiki Post #2

Wednesday, March 28



**Abbot Bernar****d believes that the rea** **son Geoffrey died was because of Divine Justice. Divine Justice is the idea that if someone does something that opposes God, He will do something to that person in punishment, it is also similar to karma. Geoffrey was excommunicated from the church for capturing King Louis's steward and Abbot Bernard believes that Geoffrey received Divine Justice for doing that. Matilda-Empress does not believe that that was true. She says "If Geoffrey were the sinner Abbot Bernard believed him to be, why would he die after he had been restored to the church. I do not believe Abbot Bernard" (Konigsburg 84). Matilda-Empress's reasoning makes sense because Divine Justice is paying for a crime, but it seemed like he had been forgiven when he was readmitted into the church. The Essential Question** ** of how a person's action can change his or her life and the lives of others has some to do with the idea of Divine Justice. A person's action can affect themselves a lot when Divine Justice is there. Their bad actions could get themselves killed by Divine Justice if the church is concerned. Also this would affec t the people around that person because they would no longer be there. A person's action can affect their life greatly if Divine Justice is real. **

**When Henry wants to appoint Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, Eleanor and Matilda-Empress are greatly against it. Matilda-Empress believes that Thomas Becket would abandon Henry for the church and God. She says "He will choose to serve God instead of you" Konigsburg 113). Henry wanted Becket to be archbishop because he believed that if Becket was archbishop they would be able to combine the church law and the English common law. Thou gh both had good reasons for wanting or not wanting Becket as archbishop, Matilda-Empress turned out to be right. Thomas Becket chose God.**

=** Wiki Post #3 **= =** Monday, April 2 **= == =** Henry and Eleanor had very different styles of teaching. Eleanor took Richard with her everywhere she went and let him help in court and collect taxes. She showed him to her people so they could see who was going to lead them. Henry, on the other hand, did not show Young Henry to his people. King Henry had Young Henry do small chores and gave him meaningless jobs. William the Marshall says, in his tale, "Young Henry would tire of the jobs he was given and he would complain to his father"(Konigsburg 139). Because of how poor Henry taught his son, Young Henry grew angry at his father and also at his brother, because he had a good teacher. King Henry's act of not teaching Young Henry well led to rebellion. Also, Eleanor's act of teaching Richard to rule the Aquitaine well made him mad when King Henry wanted to give it to John Lackland. That also led to rebellion. Henry made very poor choices when it came to teaching Young Henry how to rule England while Eleanor did a very good job teaching Richard how to rule the Aquitaine. **= = = =** The Rules of Courtly Love, created by Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughter, have greatly shaped how men treat women today. The courts of love are the reason that men open up doors for women today. When William the Marshall is telling his tale he says "The male... must regard his lady-love as someone above earthly temptation"(Konigsburg 134). He means that a man must treat the woman that he is in love with as extremely high. She is higher than all temptation. This is just one of the things that the courts of love taught men about how to treat women. Many of the rules are still used today such as standing up when a woman walks into the room. The biggest place that these rules come into play is when a man opens up the door for a woman. The courts of love have greatly changed how men treat women today. **= = =