This week, Jamie and Sofia talk about the 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, From Hell. Join us for a discussion of Jack the Ripper, Alan Moore's famous hatred of filmed adaptations of his work, living conditions in Whitechapel, pea soup fogs, and more!

Sources:

Movie Production Background:

From Hell, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Tor.com, The Great Alan Moore Re-read

Living Conditions in Whitechapel:

BBC America, "Whitechapel". 

Virtually London: Whitechapel

National Geographic, "Who Was Jack the Ripper?"

Charles Booth, Poverty Map

Charles Booth's Notebooks

Pea Soup Fogs:

Peter Thorsheim, "Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952," in Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, ed. E. Melanie DuPuis (New York: NYU Press, 2004)

Christine L. Corton, London Fog: The Biography (Harvard University Press, 2017)

The Guardian, "Sixty Years Since the Great Smog of London, In Pictures."

This week, Sofia and Jamie tackle the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers. Join them for a discussion of snipers, headsmen, royal assassination, and ladies-in-waiting.

Sources

Movie Background:

Roger Ebert's Review

The New York Times Review

The Variety Review

The Three Musketeers, IMDB

Three Musketeers, Wikipedia

Snipers:

STEPLYK, JONATHAN M. "Hunters of Men: Sharpshooters and Killing." In Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat, 119-41. University Press of Kansas, 2018. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvnfz0.10.

Video of Matchlock Musket

Wired: Brown Bess vs. AR-15

Royal Armouries Matchlock Loading Demonstration

Hans Halberstadt and Gregory Mast, To Be a Military Sniper (United States: Voyageur Press, 2007).

Headsmen:

Edward White, “The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine,” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/06/the-bloody-family-history-of-the-guillotine/ 

Gene E. Ogle, “Slaves of Justice,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 29, No. 2, Interpreting the Death Penalty: Spectacles and Debates (Summer 2003), pp. 275-293 (19 pages)

Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/executioners-who-inherited-their-jobs-180967947/

Assassination:

Assassination Attempt on King Louis XV

Eisner, Manuel. "KILLING KINGS: Patterns of Regicide in Europe, Ad 600—1800." The British Journal of Criminology 51, no. 3 (2011): 556-77. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/23640326.

Parker, Richard. "Some Additional Sources of Dumas's "Les Trois Mousquetaires"." Modern Philology 42, no. 1 (1944): 34-40. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/434465.

The Earl of Moray and James Stewart

MOOTE, A. LLOYD. "PARTNERSHIP OF KING AND CARDINAL." In Louis XIII, the Just, 155-74. University of California Press, 1989. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp5sg.13

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII

Ladies-in-waiting

Sharon Kettering, “The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen,” The Historical Journal 32, 4 (Dec. 1989) pp. 817-841.

The Bedchamber Crisis: https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-year-of-queen-victoria-2019/the-year-of-queen-victoria-the-bedchamber-crisis/

Anne Walthall, Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (University of California Press, 2008).

Caroline zum Kolk, "The Household of the Queen of France in the Sixteenth Century", The Court Historian, volume 14, number 1, june 2009 (http://cour-de-france.fr/article2336.html).

In Part II of Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Jamie and Sofia talk about chocolate, rock-paper-scissors, royal mistresses, and their grading of the history and the movie.

Sources:

Chocolate:

The Field Museum, Chocolate Exhibit.

JM Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. Guilford Press, 1993

Kate Loveman, “The Introduction of Chocolate Into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640-1730,” Journal of Social History 47, 1 (Fall 2013) pp. 27-46.

Rock-Paper-Scissors:

"Rock Paper Scissors". TeachingHistory.org.

Peter Erdi. Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

1927 description of Chi-Fou-Mi

1966 French intro video on Chi-Fou-Mi made by ORTF (National Audiovisual Institute, France)

Royal Mistresses: 

Kathleen Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press, 2013.

Excerpts from Rictor Norton, My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries. 

In Part I of their first episode, Jamie and Sofia discuss the very sparkly 1999 film Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Join them to learn new and exciting things about Leonardo da Vinci, codpieces, and selling servants to pay debts. 

Sources:

Ever After. IMDB.

Susannah Grant, "Success Feels Better, But It Doesn't Necessarily Make You Better," Medium. 

Leonardo da Vinci:

Mona Lisa, The Met. 

Mona Lisa, The Louvre.

The Codex Atlanticus.

"Flying Machine," LeonardodaVinci.net

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds. Smithsonian.

Leonardo da Vinci, Head of a Woman, The Met.

Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. PBS.

Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life. trans. Maurice Baring, 1906.

Jonathan Jones, "And the Winner Is," The Guardian.

"The Other Vitruvian Man," Smithsonian Magazine. 

Codpieces:

Grace Q. Vicary, “Visual Art as Social Data: The Renaissance Codpiece,” Cultural Anthropology 4, 1 (February 1989) pp. 3-25.

“What Goes Up Must Come Down: A Brief History of the Codpiece.”

Selling People to Pay Debts:

Henry Heller, "Bodin on Slavery and Primitive Accumulation," The Sixteenth-Century Journal

Robert Kalas, "Noble Widows and Estate Management during the French Wars of Religion"

Hoffman, "The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France"