In 1323, an aging queen rode out on a mule between two armies drawn up for battle --- and they stopped. Not because she commanded superior force, or because the parties had chosen to negotiate, but because everyone on that field shared a conviction that she was standing on ground above the fight. Harmonia tells the story of Elizabeth of Portugal, peacemaker and saint, and asks a question that stretches from medieval Iberia into our own fractured present: we have built a global society more entangled than Elizabeth could have imagined --- but have we built the shared moral framework that could put someone on the mule today, and have the armies recognize her when she arrives?
Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/woman-mule-elizabeth-portugal-and-architecture-peace
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