Category: Henrician politics
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Summer goals update
I thought I’d give you a quick update on my progress towards 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…
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Thomas Cromwell
I have spent a lot of time this week re-writing the chapter I blitzed in January on the Thomas Cromwell ballad flyting. I was never very happy with it, mainly because all I did was throw all my thoughts about each ballad down on paper before trying to chop it into themes, which was rather…
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Theoretically speaking
It’s been quite a week. First of all I had two days at home looking after my sick little boy. Then on Wednesday I went into Manchester to have a supervision meeting. I spent most of the day reading and managed to catch up with a few of my friends, which was nice because I…
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Splurge
I’ve spent a considerable proportion of the week splurging my second chapter. Second only in the sense of the second one that I’ve written, not that it will necessarily be the second one in the thesis. It feels good to have a bit more of it on paper, even if it isn’t really even a…
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Back to work
So I took Boxing Day off as well as Christmas Day, and went back to work yesterday by reading Robert Hutchinson’s biography of Thomas Cromwell. I can’t say I was impressed, not least because I came across three of my pet hate ‘must have’s (that is, “s/he must have thought/been/looked etc”) by the bottom of…
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Back to writing
Yesterday, rather unexpectedly, I sat down and started writing again. I was overcome with an urge to sest my thoughts down on paper (well, computer screen) as I read the first publication in a ballad flyting from 1540. I wrote down what I thought about it, how I interpreted it and the background to is…
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