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1199 to 1199 with Chalus, France in view: 2 lives, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows to move through.
Place in focus: Chalus, France
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1199 - Fontevraud Abbey
Endurance, bereavement, and the refusal of power to stay buried.
At Fontevraud Abbey, the most powerful woman of the medieval world confronts the wreckage left by her own sons.
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1199 - Chalus
Wound, succession, and legend arriving too early.
Laid up near Châlus with a crossbow wound that will kill him, a crusader king dictates the truth about holy war.
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Medieval
700 to 1400
Kingship, faith, succession, and the durability of personal rule.
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7 place stories active in the same years
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Chalus, France · 1199 CE to 1199 CE
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Focused place from the globe: Chalus, France
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France and Low Countries
1199 · Chalus, France
Chalus turns crusading legend into a festering wound, forcing holy war and kingship back into one dying body.
Richard's dying body keeps the event human, while Eleanor sharpens the dynastic damage his death leaves behind.
France and Low Countries
1199 · Fontevraud Abbey, France
Fontevraud gathers grief, monarchy, and family damage into one abbey that must absorb the death of Richard.
Eleanor gives the event its human force because no monument or abbey can soften the cost of outliving so much dynasty.
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1199 - Fontevraud Abbey
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Endurance, bereavement, and the refusal of power to stay buried.
At Fontevraud Abbey, the most powerful woman of the medieval world confronts the wreckage left by her own sons.
1199 to 1199 across the atlas
1199 - Fontevraud Abbey
1199 - Chalus
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1199 - Chalus
Wound, succession, and legend arriving too early.
Laid up near Châlus with a crossbow wound that will kill him, a crusader king dictates the truth about holy war.