Laurel A. Rockefeller's Blog

Catherine de Valois est l’une des reines les plus marquantes de la fin du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance européenne. Fille de Charles VI de France et sœur de Charles VII, elle fut le prétexte utilisé par Henri V d’Angleterre pour relancer la guerre de Cent Ans entre la France et l’Angleterre.

Ma passion pour Shakespeare m’a amené à faire des recherches et à écrire sur Catherine, qui, il s’avère, est une femme bien plus complexe et courageuse que Shakespeare ne l’aurait jamais imaginé.

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Mars 2014. Alors que le mois de l’histoire des femmes commençait, j’ai demandé à mon entourage de nommer dix femmes de l’histoire – ce qu’elles n’ont pas fait – et j’ai répondu à ma colère et à ma frustration en écrivant. Le livre : Boudicca : Reine brittonique des Icènes. Ce mois-là, j’étais loin de me douter que je me lançais dans une nouvelle carrière d’historienne biographique. Dix ans après sa publication initiale, Boudicca reste un favori des lecteurs et mon titre le plus populaire en ...

In this dark and violent scene from chapter three of Princess Anyu Returns ancient enemies take their revenge on Princess Anyu when they kidnap her in Brooklyn, New York.

Morlong led the way through a black-painted hallway, the same rope lighting that lined the prison cell offering its only lighting.  Navigating a poorly lit flight of stairs upward, Morlong led Anyu to the laboratory both she and Anwell deduced exist...

Spinning is one of the oldest hand crafts and skills known to man. Through spinning of wool, silk, flax, and other natural fibers, mankind moved from wearing animal skins and furs to the textiles we know today.

Though all natural, wool, silk, and flax are very different materials. Silk comes from moth cocoons through a special process the Chinese mastered millennia ago. Flax is a fibrous plant. Wool is fur shed through beneficial sheering (your dog groomer is doing this to help your dog s...

L’impératrice Wu fut l’une des femmes les plus influentes de l’histoire chinoise, voire mondiale. Vivant de 624 à 705 apr. J.-C., ses réformes du gouvernement chinois se poursuivirent jusqu’au XXe siècle, créant une culture axée sur l’éducation comme moyen de sortir de la pauvreté, qui perdure encore aujourd’hui.

Dans cette série de scènes, Wu Zhao entre dans la Cité impériale (aujourd’hui Xi An) et y débute sa vie.

Le printemps arriva bien ...

Nittany Mall. Penn State football. 1980s fashion all make appearances in this opening scene to chapter two, “Enter Anyu Wen” from Princess Anyu Returns. There’s even a bit of SCA history and geography as Easter eggs for medieval reenactors in the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Anyu plunged herself into the department store entrance.  Immediately around her racks of clothing swarmed in ordered chaos.  As alien as she found the strang...

Cockatiels are very picky birds. Whether it’s food, perches, treats, or out of cage play spaces, finding what your bird likes can be both expensive and exhausting. Once you find something your particular bird likes, you stick with it — until it gets discontinued and you have no choice but to find something else.

This is definitely the case when it comes to my birds and mineral blocks. Since 2020 I have tried almost everything to replace my birds’ discontinued food dish style mineral blocks....

Recently returned to planet Beinan, Anyu finds the Ten-Arian monastery in ruins after yen-ars of civil war. But not all is as lost as the state of the monastery grounds suggests as heroes and presumed dead friends reunite.

“By all that is holy, what happened?” cried Princess Anyu as her eyes glimpsed the ruins of the Ten-Arian monastery.  Originally a city-sized campus of thirty two buildings built over...

“The Le Terre Avvelenate” è cronologicamente il secondo libro della serie di fantascienza sociale “Nobili di Beinan” ed è un prequel della trilogia principale, fornendo in particolare il contesto di “Fantasmi del Passato”. In questa serie di scene all’inizio del racconto, la guaritrice Cara esplora una foresta vicino alla città principale di Nan-li, raccogliendo campioni di acqua, terreno e vegetazione lungo il percorso. Dopo aver sottoposto i campioni ad analisi dettagliate, Cara e la sua ...

“Território Envenenado” è cronologicamente il secondo libro della serie di fantascienza sociale “Peers of Beinan” ed è un prequel della trilogia principale, fornendo in particolare il contesto di “Fantasmi del Passato”. In questa serie di scene all’inizio del racconto, la guaritrice Cara esplora una foresta vicino alla città principale di Nan-li, raccogliendo campioni di acqua, terreno e vegetazione lungo il percorso. Dopo aver sottoposto i campioni ad analisi dettagliate, Cara e la sua coll...