#it’s even worse when they say ‘Anne wrote’ for a letter that’s not extant
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more tudor historians need to make the distinction between ‘recorded’ and ‘reported’…
#‘Anne was recorded to have said’ well; no she wasn’t.#bcus that’s a report from Chapuys. she wasn’t ‘recorded’ as having said that bcus he was not there/present when she was supposed to have#said it…#‘recorded’ is like. a herald or chronicler.#or official accounts; even…#it’s even worse when they say ‘Anne wrote’ for a letter that’s not extant#and I don’t even mean when they’re offering supposition of what she might have written based the letters extant that she *received*#I mean like Chapuys reported her alleged instructions becomes ‘Anne wrote them’#weir has repeated this so many times — that Anne wrote those instructions Chapuys alleges he gave Shelton about Mary — that I find#the assertion there exists such letter(s) constantly…#it’s like a telephone game of shoddy research /historical writing practices#Alison weir is not a Tudor historian but she got an honorary degree for her work so for the foreseeable future#in popular view she’s going to be considered one …
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