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tree_and_leafI know, I'm spamming a bit today... but this is quite a fun thread on the Grauniad Culture Vulture blog:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/03/02/literary_lust.html
So which literary character does it for you?
In my case - like one of the people on the Gaurdian website, it's probably Peter Wimsey (as a result of overwhelmingly wonderful way with words, and nice hands; I don't normally go for blonds). Also up there, though in no particular order: Aragorn, Faramir (yes, I do identify with Eowyn, why do you ask?), Remus Lupin (though at the risk of getting brickbats thrown at me, I didn't really like David Thewliss), Darcy (Fitzwilliam, not Mark, and no, that's not just because of Colin Firth... though it probably helps), and Philip Marlowe. Oh, and although this will probably mean nothing to most people reading this: Willehalm*, in the Wolfram version.
Next question: what does this say about me? I'm not sure I want to know (though it's got to be better than what fancying Rochester would say about me...)
And now back to the life of S. Dominic.
*Willehalm is also known as Saint William of Aquitane, which means that if only there was any reason to suppose he was anything like the character in Wolfram would make him the answer to the appreciably more disturbing question, which saint do you find most fanciable? The field is, admittedly, rather small, since John Donne only rates a Commemoration in the Anglican calendar, and Ludwig of Thüringen, husband of Elisabeth of Thüringen in what is genrally agreed to have been one of the few recorded marriages for love in the middle ages, was never officially canonized, despite the popular tradition in Germany. But you do have to love a guy who, when his relatives tried to talk him out of marrying Elisabeth, because her family were in a lot of trouble and she was no longer a good match, replied 'See that mountain over there? Well, if you turned it into gold, and offered me it not to marry her, I wouldn't take it.' (it sounds a bit corny now, but in the context of thirteenth century historical writing...) And Elisabeth was given to scandalising the court by throwing herself in a passionate and undignified fashion at her husband when he returned even from short absences, so it was obviously mutual.
Elisabeth/ Ludwig OTP (after all, popular hagiography is the fanfic of the middle ages...)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/03/02/literary_lust.html
So which literary character does it for you?
In my case - like one of the people on the Gaurdian website, it's probably Peter Wimsey (as a result of overwhelmingly wonderful way with words, and nice hands; I don't normally go for blonds). Also up there, though in no particular order: Aragorn, Faramir (yes, I do identify with Eowyn, why do you ask?), Remus Lupin (though at the risk of getting brickbats thrown at me, I didn't really like David Thewliss), Darcy (Fitzwilliam, not Mark, and no, that's not just because of Colin Firth... though it probably helps), and Philip Marlowe. Oh, and although this will probably mean nothing to most people reading this: Willehalm*, in the Wolfram version.
Next question: what does this say about me? I'm not sure I want to know (though it's got to be better than what fancying Rochester would say about me...)
And now back to the life of S. Dominic.
*Willehalm is also known as Saint William of Aquitane, which means that if only there was any reason to suppose he was anything like the character in Wolfram would make him the answer to the appreciably more disturbing question, which saint do you find most fanciable? The field is, admittedly, rather small, since John Donne only rates a Commemoration in the Anglican calendar, and Ludwig of Thüringen, husband of Elisabeth of Thüringen in what is genrally agreed to have been one of the few recorded marriages for love in the middle ages, was never officially canonized, despite the popular tradition in Germany. But you do have to love a guy who, when his relatives tried to talk him out of marrying Elisabeth, because her family were in a lot of trouble and she was no longer a good match, replied 'See that mountain over there? Well, if you turned it into gold, and offered me it not to marry her, I wouldn't take it.' (it sounds a bit corny now, but in the context of thirteenth century historical writing...) And Elisabeth was given to scandalising the court by throwing herself in a passionate and undignified fashion at her husband when he returned even from short absences, so it was obviously mutual.
Elisabeth/ Ludwig OTP (after all, popular hagiography is the fanfic of the middle ages...)
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Date: 2006-03-03 03:10 pm (UTC)Well, hagiography is great fun - but I'd stay away from the legends of virgin martyrs. With the exception of S. Katherine of Alexandria, they are all the same and all dull.
Katherine is fantastic, though (any girl who is generally represented reading a book while casually clutching a sword in the other hand gets my vote!)
Elisabeth of Thuringia, or of Hungary, was clearly a very exceptional woman, and the sources on her are unusually good - the accounts of her life haven't been pushed as far into the normal pattern as often happens. Married women rarely get canonized, and if they do, you never hear about how passionately they loved their husbands (they are too busy moping over the loss of their maidenhead, which gets tiresome very quickly).
Willehalm is utterly fantastic, but I don't know if it's been translated into English, and if so, whether the translation is any good or not...