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Diarmaid MacCulloch on David Loades ‘Mary Tudor: A Life’
- Much easier to pity her with her constant gynaecological illnesses… inability to make the
best of often difficult situations
- Could inspire deep affection in those who knew her well
- Loades observes that her court was considered even at the time, one of the dullest in
Europe
- King [Philip of Spain] was not even afforded the elementary and customary courtesy of
substantial English estate
- Mary was a property of wildly fluctuating value on the European marriage market
- The reign of Edward brought more storms; it was the moment that the Mass was
abolished when Mary ended her quiescence and became a focus of political opposition
- Loades shows how the loss of her mother made Mary emotionally dependent for most of
her life on the Emperor Charles V
- Mary was the most significant East Anglian magnate during Edward’s reign
- Single-minded devotion to the Blessed Sacrament
- Made no moves to restore any of the old pilgrimage centres…not over-generous in her
attention to the re-foundation of monasteries and friaries
David Loades
- Mary made the unfortunate mistake of antagonising her successor
- In the last days of 1558 a royal commission was issued “to discover by what means the
realm hath suffered great harm”
- Nicholas Sander- “daughter of misfortune”
- Foxe and Froude (protestant contemporary historians) hypothesis of Mary- she was
alienated from her subjects and indifferent to their aspirations
- Instead of being evil or totally misguided, Mary became a foolish and infatuated woman
- For A.F.Pollard (1913) - focus on her sterility
- To Pollard she was a perverse bigot and to Hughes a virtuous but sadly incompetent
princess, who allowed herself to be manipulated by unscrupulous foreigners
- Jean Stone presents her as a woman beleaguered by the greed and unscrupulousness
of men
- Pollard said that Mary’s marriage had been a poison which had contaminated everything
that touch it
- Mary’s reign had been a most fruitful period, although not at all in any way that she
intended or desired
- Religion…less politically important than had been supposed
- Pogson (revisionist) argued…far from being alienated from her subjects in religious
matter, the queen represented a broad census
- Davies and Williams drew attention to the importance of harvest failure and epidemic
disease in the latter part of the reign, suggesting that demoralization came from this as
opposed to the aspersions cast upon government or the church
Diarmaid MacCulloch on David Loades ‘Mary Tudor: A Life’
- Much easier to pity her with her constant gynaecological illnesses… inability to make the
best of often difficult situations
- Could inspire deep affection in those who knew her well
- Loades observes that her court was considered even at the time, one of the dullest in
Europe
- King [Philip of Spain] was not even afforded the elementary and customary courtesy of
substantial English estate
- Mary was a property of wildly fluctuating value on the European marriage market
- The reign of Edward brought more storms; it was the moment that the Mass was
abolished when Mary ended her quiescence and became a focus of political opposition
- Loades shows how the loss of her mother made Mary emotionally dependent for most of
her life on the Emperor Charles V
- Mary was the most significant East Anglian magnate during Edward’s reign
- Single-minded devotion to the Blessed Sacrament
- Made no moves to restore any of the old pilgrimage centres…not over-generous in her
attention to the re-foundation of monasteries and friaries
David Loades
- Mary made the unfortunate mistake of antagonising her successor
- In the last days of 1558 a royal commission was issued “to discover by what means the
realm hath suffered great harm”
- Nicholas Sander- “daughter of misfortune”
- Foxe and Froude (protestant contemporary historians) hypothesis of Mary- she was
alienated from her subjects and indifferent to their aspirations
- Instead of being evil or totally misguided, Mary became a foolish and infatuated woman
- For A.F.Pollard (1913) - focus on her sterility
- To Pollard she was a perverse bigot and to Hughes a virtuous but sadly incompetent
princess, who allowed herself to be manipulated by unscrupulous foreigners
- Jean Stone presents her as a woman beleaguered by the greed and unscrupulousness
of men
- Pollard said that Mary’s marriage had been a poison which had contaminated everything
that touch it
- Mary’s reign had been a most fruitful period, although not at all in any way that she
intended or desired
- Religion…less politically important than had been supposed
- Pogson (revisionist) argued…far from being alienated from her subjects in religious
matter, the queen represented a broad census
- Davies and Williams drew attention to the importance of harvest failure and epidemic
disease in the latter part of the reign, suggesting that demoralization came from this as
opposed to the aspersions cast upon government or the church
