Word: salic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene in which the waging of war against the French is justified through an exegesis of the Salic Law (caption: "A Meeting of Hawks"), the Archbishop of Canterbury is a caricature. He is dressed in a yellow-buttoned red hooped skirt that achieves a diameter of some four or five feet, suggesting rapaciousness and gluttony, Kahn makes him somewhat forgetful, too, and has the black-garbed Bishop of Ely prompt him now and then...
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