Periods Of Your Country's History That You Don't Take Seriously?

[Malthus]

All you guys complaining about the fascination with the Tudors - that is not nearly as bizzare and incomprehensible as the "Ricardians".

Why would thousands of apparently otherwise sane people care so very deeply that Richard III (allegedly) got a raw deal by Shakespeare? 

In any event, most of the shit he was accused of was just in the job description. Murder inconvenient claimants to the throne who are closely related to you? SURELY NO TUDOR WOULD DO THAT!

[Valmy]

All you guys complaining about the fascination with the Tudors

Not complaining so much as baffled by it.

that is not nearly as bizzare and incomprehensible as the "Ricardians".

JUSTICE FOR DICKIE III!  But seriously that seems like a fringe group.

In any event, most of the shit he was accused of was just in the job description. Murder inconvenient claimants to the throne who are closely related to you? SURELY NO TUDOR WOULD DO THAT!

Mary and Elizabeth cried their eyes out afterwards you monster!

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, I should also probably mention Matejko, a historical painter from the 19th century, who also played a huge role in painting iconic moments from Polish history. Like this extremely excessive Battle of Grunwald:

I think you mean extremely awesome

[Maladict]

Oh, I should also probably mention Matejko, a historical painter from the 19th century, who also played a huge role in painting iconic moments from Polish history. Like this extremely excessive Battle of Grunwald:

I think you mean extremely awesome

It is really impressive when you're standing in front of it. But perhaps not great art.

[Eddie Teach]

Very busy.

[Admiral Yi]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

[Razgovory]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

I guess they were still a 150 years behind the rest of the world.

[Razgovory]

I've always found most of Canada's history to be quite dull, but as the faux-Chinese saying has it, interesting times (past or present) do not generally translate into good living.   

For Euro history, I've always personally taken the mainstream Prottie approach of reading the Middle Ages as something of a curious interregnum - and so to be studied as an overview, but lacking the same gravity as the history of the "Modern" era or antiquity. 

But the periods and regions I've been interested in have changed over time and will probably continue to do so in the future.   

I've come around on Canadian history.  It's not as violent as the history of other places, but it's more accessible too.

Of course it's accessible.  You barely have 30 years of Canadian history!

[viper37]

So what's your own dark age?

early 20th century, the end of the industrial revolution, the boring 20s and the Great Depression.  Never fantasized much about it.

[CountDeMoney]

All you guys complaining about the fascination with the Tudors

Not complaining so much as baffled by it.

I really think it's a chick thing.

[Martinus]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

Hardly. It's second half of the 19th century. Baroque was 17th century.

[Valmy]

the boring roaring 20s

I think you are confused.

[Malthus]

Not complaining so much as baffled by it.

It's a family that makes for perfect soap-opera fodder.

[Valmy]

Not complaining so much as baffled by it.

It's a family that makes for perfect soap-opera fodder.

And the Stewarts aren't?  Or heck the Plantagenets.

The Hanoverians are Germans and thus a little stiff.

Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are just super stars for some reason.  Nobody matches their star power no matter how soap-opera-ish they are.  And I guess that is what those other dynasties lack: compelling protagonists for the story.

It does give the rather funny impression to some people I have talked to that all men were like Henry VIII. They just chopped off every woman's head who did not give them a son to preserve their dynasty, even if they were a shoemaker or something.

[Jacob]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

Hardly. It's second half of the 19th century. Baroque was 17th century.

To be fair, the Romantic and Historical painters of the 1800s were influenced by the Baroque approach, as is evident from the paintings we're looking at.

Death of Sardanapalus is pretty busy too, for example.