The Road to Canossa update
To all my subscribers...I know it took me a while, but your patience is about to be rewarded! I have just sent the first copy of my new...
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larabyrne
- Dec 7, 2021
- 5 min
The making of an unlikely leader. Matilde of Tuscany's childhood
Not much is known about Matilde/a of Tuscany's birth. The year was 1046, but the day and place are uncertain. Mantova, Lucca, Canossa,...
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larabyrne
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
The Road to Canossa shortlisted for Page Turner Screenplay Awards 2021
I entered this competition with very low hopes as my manuscript required screen adaptation, Yet the jury was stellar, comprising...
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larabyrne
- Sep 24, 2021
- 3 min
Hamletic Lotharingia - The parallel lives of Hamlet and King Henry IV of Germany
Whilst I was not consciously aware of it as I was working on his character, I realise a posteriori that my version of Heinrich IV owes...
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larabyrne
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
The books that inspired Lotharingia - Thoughts on Pope Joan
This is my first post in a while. I have spent the summer dreaming of holidays I could not take, and sharing visuals of the settings of...
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larabyrne
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
What's in a name - The Lotharingian connection
A few people have asked how I have come up with the title and what Lotharingia means. Matilde, my heroine, is known as Matilda of...
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larabyrne
- May 28, 2021
- 2 min
What's in a cover - The golden crosses of medieval power
I have had a few questions about the cover of Lotharingia, and what it is meant to represent. Lotharingia is a tale of love, relics, and...
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larabyrne
- Dec 4, 2020
- 2 min
Why I decided to write a novel on Matilde of Tuscany
In many ways, Countess Matilde of Tuscany was the most remarkable woman of the XI century. She must have made quite an impression on...
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larabyrne
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
Medieval Women in Power - Matilda of Tuscany and her precursors
Medieval Europe did not really have historians in the modern (or ancient Greek) sense of the word. It had chroniclers and propagandists....
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larabyrne
- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
Medieval manuscripts
Sadly, a lot of medieval castles today are very different from the way they looked in their hey day. Re-modelling and change of use, as...
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