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#so as to bolster certain theories she clearly has about certain people and their loyalties...
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reading alison weir's new novel; she's adapted and altered the primary source material she's clearly using in a way that is...um. something?
#i mean it's a novel. and it is not called creative license for nothing
#i also know im not the target audience and that
#the vast majority of the people reading this book are not like me (insofar as i've
#read what's available from the archives/state calendar papers from 1533-36...
#probably. front to back altogether; chronologically; about a dozen times or so? taken detailed notes etc )
#*so i doubt it's a bugbear for many; if any; other than myself
#but i was very easily able to pick out the primary source quotes ; and her intent in
#placing; for example; a quote from a chapuys report of 1536 in late 1533
#and switching the identities of certain people (here; norfolk subbed in for shelton ) for certain incidents
#so as to bolster certain theories she clearly has about certain people and their loyalties...
#i mean again it's a novel but this is what she does in her nonfiction too; she just has had more liberty to do so here
#and there is a reason training in history is important to being labeled 'a historian'
#you are to develop your theories from the evidence. not vice versa.
#(or more specifically...she does literally the opposite of what historians are trained to do. she molds the evidence to fit her theories. )
#anyway. review forthcoming...maybe
#i'll have to read her author's note once i'm done with this section to see if she admits to any of these specific alterations
#evidence first; theory after! otherwise we end up with all these superficial renderings
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