#tl ; dr. 'may' is more diplomatic than i would be fjdksjfsk | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fideidefenswhore · 2 months

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Some of the inaccuracies that creep in may indicate that her reading and research were deficient. For instance, historians agree that Anne was probably the younger sister and Mary the elder [...] but Gregory represents [...] Mary as a year younger than Anne. Anne's wardship of her nephew, Henry Carey, is seen as adoption in the modern sense, with little or no appreciation of the contemporary system of wardship.

The Debate on the English Reformation, Rosemary O'Day

#interesting but i don't find the birth order 'edit' as nearly as egregious as the latter misinterpretation #like the former is not NOT annoying...it's more what pgreg does with it that is. aggravating.#rosemary o'day #but yeah. anyways. neither pgreg nor weir seem to have much understanding of what the system of wardship entailed #or that it was an action which relieved financial burden off mary; not the reverse #nor that there's letters extant that corroborate that anne was trying to relieve mary's financial burden via this era and also the later 1 #of even after she ordered her banishment from court #tl ; dr. 'may' is more diplomatic than i would be fjdksjfsk

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