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oh my god just post the damn thing
Aug. 15th, 2021 08:43 pmFor some reason, nearly all of the questions I'm getting lately are about the Tudors. I'm not really sure where that's coming from.
Was 13 year olds getting married in Tudor times truly acceptable? If you were married as a teen, were you considered an adult?
Was Catherine Howard actually unfaithful to King Henry VIII?
How many people were executed in the reign of Queen Mary I of England? Does she deserve the moniker of “Bloody Mary”?
You are a nobleman's daughter. King Henry VIII asks for your hand in marriage. Can you realistically say no? If so, what would be the repercussions?
Do we have any documented sources of unmarried 19th century women ruining their reputation?
Did either Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard have funerals?
Did Catherine Howard's death take more than one strike? <- the answer was no, so I wrote a bunch about a woman whose execution did take more than one strike instead.
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I started this post a week ago, and then realized that my AskHistorians Digital Conference is meant to happen today, so I spent the last week writing my paper ... and then had to viciously chop it down Friday night and Saturday morning because I had assumed it was one page:one minute reading out loud, and it's more like 1:2. And now the recording is done and I don't have to think about it again until it "airs" as part of the conference in October, when I'll need to be on hand to do the AMA part.
If you've heard about this early medieval grave that's suspected to be a non-binary individual's, here's the original article from the European Journal of Archaeology. It's very interesting, and open access!
Was 13 year olds getting married in Tudor times truly acceptable? If you were married as a teen, were you considered an adult?
Was Catherine Howard actually unfaithful to King Henry VIII?
How many people were executed in the reign of Queen Mary I of England? Does she deserve the moniker of “Bloody Mary”?
You are a nobleman's daughter. King Henry VIII asks for your hand in marriage. Can you realistically say no? If so, what would be the repercussions?
Do we have any documented sources of unmarried 19th century women ruining their reputation?
Did either Anne Boleyn or Catherine Howard have funerals?
Did Catherine Howard's death take more than one strike? <- the answer was no, so I wrote a bunch about a woman whose execution did take more than one strike instead.
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I started this post a week ago, and then realized that my AskHistorians Digital Conference is meant to happen today, so I spent the last week writing my paper ... and then had to viciously chop it down Friday night and Saturday morning because I had assumed it was one page:one minute reading out loud, and it's more like 1:2. And now the recording is done and I don't have to think about it again until it "airs" as part of the conference in October, when I'll need to be on hand to do the AMA part.
If you've heard about this early medieval grave that's suspected to be a non-binary individual's, here's the original article from the European Journal of Archaeology. It's very interesting, and open access!
