Comments on: TSS: Anne Neville

By: S. Krishna

S. Krishna — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:13:55 +0000

VERY interesting rant - I'd be interested in reading more of these! S. Krishna’s last blog post..Names My Sisters Call Me - Megan Crane

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:45:48 +0000

Though I know next to nothing about this topic, I very much enjoyed reading your rant, Meghan. And I understand why you were annoyed. I hate being let down by an author like that. Nymeth’s last blog post..Old Man's War by John Scalzi

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:17:31 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you. It wouldn’t have been considered a tragedy or even unusual, but I don’t think that means fifteenth-century people didn’t grieve and just shrugged off the losses of people close to them.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:14:28 +0000

Heh, thanks! I hope to be teaching in some fashion eventually, so I’m glad you enjoyed it.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:13:53 +0000

I wondered about this. I had originally checked it out because someone told me he called Richard a child molester, and in fact he does! I’m not sure how to define myself, Ricardian or not, but that’s taking the situation out of its historical context and slandering for no good reason. I think he did spice it up for a public audience, considering his academic work has none of this.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:11:36 +0000

Usually, I’d say it’s fairly normal for a popular historian – someone who has had a look at the primary sources and some secondary sources and decides to publish their opinion – but for a guy who has spent his entire life doing history at the highest academic levels, these mistakes are grave.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:10:26 +0000

I’m glad! I just worry that I’m not speaking to my normal audience, I think.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:09:58 +0000

Yeah, the sexism really bothered me. There isn’t anything wrong with being a housewife, but I don’t think anyone would equate one with being the queen of England with huge estates to manage who had probably been training her entire life for just this “job”.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:08:09 +0000

I’m being trained to do it, really, but it bothers me that someone I have previously respected allows all of these problems to get into his work!

By: Arleigh

Arleigh — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:16:34 +0000

You've made some excellent points! I hate it when an author says one thing and then states just the opposite elsewhere in the book. As for the emotional part of loved ones dying, I think it affected them, though not as it does people today. We are used to people living well into their 80's and 90's. It was a common thing to die young then, but that doesn't mean it was any easier emotionally. Perhaps there was not a shock value is all. Arleigh’s last blog post..award time!