#not to mention louise of savoy's diary entries
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or, to be extremely clear:
i don't dispute that "no matter Anne’s role in what happened to Mary, it existed, [and] impacted her".
but what has always seemed strange to me is that chapuys' dispatches on the matter are treated as if they are definitive. because we have no corroboration of them (and we don't, despite what weir has claimed-- nothing 'corroborates', there are reports from those such as dr. ortiz, the imperial ambassador to rome, that are relaying what chapuys has already sent him, not corroborating them, as he's not in england himself); the extent of her role is always going to be ambiguous, barring further found evidence on the matter. the only aspect that is definitive is that she was not-- again-- the sole author of mary's treatment, because henry followed an amplified version of the same policy regarding his eldest daughter after anne's execution, and followed it to the extreme.
#the timeline does indeed matter.#anyways. i'll leave it there#tl;dr i should just not bring this subject up; i guess.#because i feel like everytime i do i'm taken in bad faith.#and it's very frustrating. i don't think i deserve to have my empathy called into question and my life experience presumed#for expressing skepticism on the matter of a misogynistic 16c commentator's reports on his bete noire.#of this era we also have like...*way* more in the way of direct evidence of women being nasty towards each other#than we do for this dynamic#norfolk reporting his conversation with marguerite where she says her sister in law is#needy and pathetic and clingy in bed...#not to mention louise of savoy's diary entries#about anne of brittany...#that the focus on this dynamic does not really seem...proportional#but it was an anon. so i answered it. and i expanded on it. after reading that article excerpted in my reread of bordo's book#and realizing that that view still seems fairly prevalent
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