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Tudor Iconography
I’ve now finished reading ‘Tudor Royal Iconography’ by John N. King which was interesting and pointed me in the direction of a few different sources. Happily, neither of the two iconography books that I’ve read has used all the source material that I have. I’m about to start reading Alice Hunt’s PhD thesis, and then…
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Easter holidays
Well, at least for the children anyway. Last week I visited the Salford Diocesan Archives in Manchester and the Talbot Library in Preston. They both have an excellent selection of secondary material, including, in the case of the Talbot Library, quite large sections on the religious orders and Mariological works. The Talbot library is housed…
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First Research Panel
Last week was a busy week. It started with a Spanish listening test (I don’t think I’ve done very well) and finished with my youngest child’s 5th birthday and a party in the garden with family and a few of his friends. Fitted into the middle was my first research panel, which took about 45…
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Images of Mary I
I sent off my first piece of research work to my supervisors today. It’s about the positive representations of Mary I during her reign. A lot of the images that writers use are biblical, and a couple of ballad writers refer to her as the marigold. There is even a ‘godly Psalm’ about her, written…
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Historical Association
Come October, I’m going to be a Trustee of the Historical Association. I stood as a candidate about a month ago, but as there were only a couple of nominations we didn’t have to go to an election. I’m rather looking forward to it.
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7233 words
An interesting sort of week. I have been trying to polish up my work, which is due in next Wednesday, but it’s impossible to switch off from the analysis. It keeps expanding instead of being cut! I keep finding bits that need more explanation, so more explanation goes in, or another hour or two or…
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I think it’s taking over my life….
…which I suppose is not really surprising! I’ve had a really good day, but I know I can’t carry on now, because it’s too late to start on another section that could drag on into the night. I’ve written 4800 words of my chapter on images of Mary, and although doubtless some of them need…
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Ballads and Marigolds
This week I’ve been looking at the ballads written about Mary and Philip, and their background. So I’m looking into the authors and printers, and the culture of balladry in the early modern period. I’m really finding it very interesting, not least because of my background in music and my particular interest in the folk…
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Primary research
I’ve changed tack a bit this week. Instead of doing random keyword searches or looking up all the records in English for each year on EEBO, I looked up recusant women on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, made some notes on them and then started trying to find references to them on EEBO, State…
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Weekly update
I didn’t do my update last night, so here it is. Yesterday was much more productive. I checked all the records for 1555, which was interesting, if a little on the slow side. In the afteroon I carried on with my secondary reading – I’ve moved on to Megan Matchinske, because it was shorter. I…
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