Polly Esther

About me

Gender Female
Location Antarctica
Introduction Termagant and mongrel
Interests Abbasid caliphate, Adélaïde d'Anjou, 'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya, Albigensian Crusade, al-Andalus, Anna Komnene, Aquitaine, Athanasius Kircher, Avignon papacy, Ayyubid dynasty, Bretagne, Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, Colonna-Orsini feud, Counts of Tusculum, Crusades, Dante Alighieri, Eastern Roman Empire, Fatima bint al-Hassan, Fatimah al-Zahra, Folk saints, Folklore, Francesco Petrarca, French wars of religion, Galicia, Godefroy de Bouillon, Gregory of Tours, Guelphs and Ghibellines, High Middle Ages, Holy Roman Empire, Kahina, House of Capet, House of Cornouaille, House of Hohenstaufen, House of Hauteville, House of Lusignan, House of Plantagenet, House of Penthièvre, House of Poitiers, House of Rennes, House of Rochechouart, House of Rouergue, House of Wessex, Hundred Years' War, Julian of Norwich, Matthew Paris, Merovingian dynasty, Mizrahim, Nizari, Occitan, Olga of Kiev, Omar Khayyám, Orientalism, Persian Empire, Provence, Reconquista, Rumi, Sæmundr fróði, Safavid dynasty, Sasanian Empire, Seljuk Empire, Sephardim, Shajar al-Durr, Snorri Sturluson, Sufism, Tam Lin, Tusculan Papacy, Urraca I de León, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Favorite Music Anonymous 4, Azalais de Porcairagues, Bernart de Ventadorn, Blondel de Nesle, Ensemble für Frühe Musik Augsburg, Ensemble Organum, Estampie, Garsenda de Proensa, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Hildegarde von Bingen, Jaufre Rudel, Nicolas Saboly, Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, Thibaut de Navarre, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ysabella
Favorite Books Alexiad, Book of Taliesin, El Cantar de mio Cid, The Canterbury Tales, La chanson de Roland, Decameron, Divine Comedy, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, The Faerie Queene, Historia Regum Britanniae, Mabinogion, Les Quatre fils Aymon, Orlando Furioso, Orlando Innamorato, Perceval le Conte du Graal, Prose Edda, Reynard cycle, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, A Thousand and One Nights, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, Vulgate Cycle, Yvain le Chevalier au Lion