tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post5697481644109152499..comments2024-03-26T07:37:54.729+00:00Comments on Confessions of a Ci-Devant: May 6th, 1536: The Mystery of the Queen's LetterGareth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09102113677858015813noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-68766254348245657882012-05-01T03:37:00.091+01:002012-05-01T03:37:00.091+01:00And the reason why she didn't sign it Anne Bol...And the reason why she didn't sign it Anne Boleyn or Anne the Queen, is probably because she wanted Henry to see her again as she was long ago when they met, when she was innocent. Not the present time when all he thought of her was a heretic, murderer and whore. I think she was fighting with everything she had to get into his mind to remind him of what she use to be, not what she was now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-78948030397994637182012-05-01T03:31:14.109+01:002012-05-01T03:31:14.109+01:00Well, you say the handwriting is not as neat as h...Well, you say the handwriting is not as neat as her later handwriting, but you have to put reality into the matter. If you were sitting in a tower, and your head was going to be chopped off any hour from now, I doubt your going to be cool, calm and collected as you are writing that letter, like it's just some ordinary day. Uh, no. Your hand is going to be shaking uncontrollably knowing this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-61721739388121711062010-05-08T19:32:31.440+01:002010-05-08T19:32:31.440+01:00Professor Warnicke's argument is certainly int...Professor Warnicke's argument is certainly intriguing, as are the examples of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Pope Celestine, but, I would say it's a matter of pure speculation - as so much with the debate about this letter. Unlike certain other arguments that she has advanced, I don't think this one is too far-fetched, but it does rely on too many unsubstantiated variables to be anything Gareth Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102113677858015813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-82593750960641206232010-05-07T01:00:34.457+01:002010-05-07T01:00:34.457+01:00Very interesting post!
Gareth, what do you think...Very interesting post!<br /><br /><br />Gareth, what do you think of Warnicke’s argument, made in the article ‘Reshaping Tudor Biography: Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves’, that the letter, which she argues to be a forgery, may have been the product of a schoolroom exercise. As she states,<br /><br />‘The Elizabethan transcript could have been a product of education practice in the premodern world.little_miss_sunnydalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834404563322701533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-69923050243291878702010-05-06T22:52:51.670+01:002010-05-06T22:52:51.670+01:00Hi ... I've just finished reading this, togeth...Hi ... I've just finished reading this, together with all the other blogs since 1 May and I am mightily impressed :-)<br /><br />You are obviously a Boleyn devotee, but your blogs remain informative and non-partisan (in the main :-))<br /><br />Good stuff :thumbs up:Sharon Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10146254213847867730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-18199282991341091702010-05-06T21:18:14.436+01:002010-05-06T21:18:14.436+01:00So I was lead here by another Tudor blogger, and I...So I was lead here by another Tudor blogger, and I have to say--your posts are fabulous! And also, content-wise, they are just so impressive ... so I have to ask--you've got to be a historian, right? As a history student myself who's starting her M.A. in the fall, (I plan to study early modern England) I'm really curious as to what you do! <br /><br />Anyway, this Anne Boleyn series Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073963354588496371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-45481657309443956552010-05-06T20:37:37.918+01:002010-05-06T20:37:37.918+01:00Great article! I really don't think that Anne ...Great article! I really don't think that Anne would sign as "Bullen", but yet it coul be hers..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-37087423905345184462010-05-06T20:13:06.506+01:002010-05-06T20:13:06.506+01:00Thanks, Claire! I agree on all counts - especially...Thanks, Claire! I agree on all counts - especially wishing she had written it!Gareth Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102113677858015813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-89670424495089427212010-05-06T19:34:09.589+01:002010-05-06T19:34:09.589+01:00Hi Gareth,
Brilliant article and I've linked t...Hi Gareth,<br />Brilliant article and I've linked to it from my article on the letter as you've gone into more detail on it.<br />Like you, I think it's unlikely that Anne did write it as she did not sign it Anne Boleyn or Anne the Queen, but I so wish she had written it!Claire Ridgwayhttp://www.theanneboleynfiles.comnoreply@blogger.com