she-wolf was SC - Turkish Breakfast

[Helen]

Makes it sound like it may have been Marlowe's poetic license summing up the bad
things they said and not excatly what they called her at the time.  Too bad we
can't jump in the time machine and just check these facts and grab a few
cookbooks.....


>         Another example closer to the 'missing evidence' idea- I wrote a
> paper a couple of years ago on Isabella of France, the queen of Edward II
> of England. Most references to her in modern books call her the 'She-Wolf
> of France'. I was interested in this and the origins and started digging.
> Would you believe that I can find not evidence that she was called by that
> name in her own day? The earliest evidence I could find was in Christopher
> Marlowe's play _Edward II_! All of the chronicles (English, Latin, French)
> called her La Belle Isabelle or Isabel the Fair, and after she deposed her
> husband (long story) they say nasty things about her, but never the
> She-Wolf epithet. This does not mean that she was not called that, but
> that it was not publicly recorded until Marlowe wrote it down. This is a
> far cry from the various historians saying she is 'traditionally' known as
> the She-Wolf...
>
> Tradition and evidence are very different. Use them both as tools, not as
> masters, and you will be much happier about your work.
>
> 'Lainie
> -
> Laura C. Minnick
> -
> 'A Vaillans Coeurs Riens Impossible'
> -
> "Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
> Bodleian."
>         Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731
>
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