My mother was telling my uncle about my planned #MedievalMoversAndShakers project, and received the plaintive response, "Do you think you could persuade her to pick someone more pronounceable next time?!"
So, when #Akhenaten is done and on display, when #Athelflaed and #Rahere are finished, and #Placidus is in progress...
Who shall I look into next?

I optimistically bought "The Romance of Rahere and Other Poems" by Edward Hardingham, thinking it might at least give me atmosphere or something for my #OpusAnglicanum #Rahere, and it turned out to be a Civil War era romance about a girl named Rahere, in honour of the prior. She dies, leaving her young man distraught.
So, really, really not helpful!
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Can any #history enthusiasts or #histodons help me?

I'm looking for reading material about #Rahere, who was jester to Henry I and founded St Bart's. So far, I have Wikipedia, St Bart's Archive and the Church, Rosemary Sutcliff, and Kipling. Not much to go on!

Boosts welcome.

I am beginning to pull together my bookshelf for the #MedievalMoversAndShakers.
I've been pleasantly surprised that #Aethelflaed has been fairly easy to find. So far, #Rahere is represented by a couple of pages in "London".
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Can any #histodons recommend biographies of #Rahere the founder of St Bart's, #Aethelflaed the Lady of the Mercians, or Dame #JulianOfNorwich?
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I have four people in mind..

#WilliamMarshall 1st Earl of Pembroke, jouster, statesman, guardian of kings, guarantor of Magna Carta.

#Athelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, war leader and peaceweaver, guardian of Athelstan.

#Rahere, jester, minstrel, courtier and monk, founder of St Bartholomew's.

#DameJulianOfNorwich, anchoress, mystic, author of the the first book in English known to be written by a woman.

#MedievalMoversAndShakers