Category: Henrician politics
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Sawley Abbey and the Pilgrimage of Grace
It’s been an interesting week for my Pilgrimage of Grace project, despite not having done any work on the book itself. Last week, my friend Kate and I visited Sawley Abbey in the November drizzle. Like my visit to Whalley Abbey earlier in the year, it was really quite evocative, with clouds rolling across Pendle…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…
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Final Countdown
This afternoon I had my mock viva, which was an interesting experience. It was reassuring, in that I survived and there was only one question that I felt I completely flunked. That said, there were several others that brought home to me the need to be certain of my own position, which of course is…
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It’s gone!
I have finally sent off my commonwealth chapter to my panel, ahead of my meeting with them next week. I’m in a slightly different position to normal in that I was able to send it with a message telling them where I wanted help and where I hoped to expand it when I come to…
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Tidings of Good News
I was warned on Wednesday that my luck will have to run out eventually. That may not sound too much like good news, but the converse is, of course, that, in order to provoke the comment, things must be going relatively well at the moment. Work on the commonwealth chapter continues, with some quite major…
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Finally, a good week!
After a couple of dodgy days at the beginning, the week has definitely ended on a high. I spent quite a lot of time at the beginning of the week consolidating the ideas that my trip to the British Library generated and I wrote a thousand words in a couple of hours, bringing together my…
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Seminars and an article
An interesting week. I’ve spent most of it smoothing out the wrinkles in my epitaph ballad article. I think it’s nearly ready to go, which is quite pleasing. The process of refinement is interesting and one that I really quite enjoy, as it brings out the pedant in me. I’ve spent most of the week…
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Back on track?
You may have noticed that I didn’t post a blog last week. This was mainly down to the tremendous amount of stress I was under – several problems, nothing to do with my PhD and way beyond the scope of this blog, came together to make last week the week from hell. What few attempts…
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More planning
I’ve spent most of this week writing my common weal chapter and despite my misgivings about how much I would get for it, I’ve actually written about 4200 words. Last Sunday I spent the afternoon at my kitchen table, cutting 4 different versions of the same ballad into little pieces and sticking them back together…
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Summer goals: the final score
The results of my summer goals: • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction. I’m part way through this, although it needs a LOT more work. I’m discussing it with friends that I met at the Psalm Culture conference in London in July and I’ve given it a lot of thought, but so far, there’s only a…
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