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Easing In
A food truck is not a simple operation. "People don't realize it's like a restaurant," Lefebvre says. "You need to rent a commissary kitchen, hire a staff, and prep the staff. It's the same headache of the restaurant. It's not easy."
New challenges presented themselves with LudoTruck that Levebvre never experienced in a restaurant. One example is the need to scale his recipe to serve a much larger volume of people. Then there was the issue of supply.
"At the restaurant, you have a big walk-in; you can always go and get some more vegetables," Lefebvre says. "Sometimes our commissary kitchen is far away, and sometimes we're going to run out of food. There's nothing we can do. That's one of the problems, because sometimes we get slammed."
A burden facing the food truck movement, Villaman says, is that too many people believe they can buy a repossessed truck, throw an oven in it, and cart it around town at will. What Mobi Munch aims to do is organize the food truck movement and turn it into something with formidable selling power.
But Villaman says Mobi Munch isn't just looking to invest in a couple of food trucks—it wants to help shape the entire movement.
"In conjunction with partnering with … high-visibility chefs and being their operations arm, we compliment them with our website, which is directed toward all of the mobile food truck industry," he says of the company's MobileCravings.com, which he calls the "Facebook of mobile food."
In fact, there are three arms to Mobi Munch's business model. One is the online promotion of the movement as a whole. The second is owning and operating its own food trucks, including the Chairman Bao Bun Truck in San Francisco.
The third arm of Mobi Munch is the development of trucks for independent operators and chains. Villaman says at least four national quick-service chains have been in contact with the company about moving beyond brick-and-mortar stores.
Part of the consulting Mobi Munch does with food trucks is helping them understand the rules of the game, and how to coexist with traditional restaurants.
"We're part of a mobile truck and vendors association and we're trying to use that as a vehicle to start educating people, saying, 'Look, let's play by agreed upon rules with the brick-and-mortar restaurants or else we're going to keep butting heads," Villaman says.
"Once those rules are laid out in the different municipalities across the country, you're going to see more sophisticated operators enter the space."
As a man who has worked in several brick-and-mortar stores himself, Lefebvre adamantly supports staying away from any small operator his truck might affect.
His ideal squatting spot? An office park.
"You know, people don't have too much time to eat," he says. "Life is changing. American people work so hard. With the trucks, it gives an opportunity to people who walk out of the office and have 20 minutes or 30 minutes to eat to go down the street to eat the fresh food from a truck."
The ultimate goal for Mobi Munch is to do to the food truck world what Ray Kroc did to the fast food world.
"The best-in-class trucks will scale to four or five trucks," Villaman says. "It's no different with brick and mortar; once an operator gets into four or five units, they need someone else to take them from five to 50 or five to 100. That's our group."
Villaman foresees taking the LudoTruck brand nationwide. "We partnered with Ludo to have 10, 20, 50 trucks, not just the one," he says. While Lefebvre says he's still in a wait-and-see mode with LudoTruck, he knows what opportunities extend across the U.S.
"I use a lot of Twitter, and I have a lot of people from the East Coast who want to try my chicken too, or Chicago or San Francisco," Lefebvre says. "Why not one day do our truck in a different city?"
Speeding Away
Food trucks are hardly a product of the 21st century. Taco trucks and roach coaches have been taking food to the streets for decades. But the latest movement might just be the one to make food trucks a foodservice equal to brick-and-mortar establishments, experts say.
Melissa Abbott, director of culinary insights and trends for market research firm The Hartman Group, says the food truck movement is rising in popularity because consumers are looking for quality food, and that's what trucks are finally producing.
"Whoever typically is behind the food truck, they're really doing it with super fresh ingredients, super local ingredients, and their recipes are much more authentic than something you might get at a restaurant for the same price," she says.
In addition to quality food, Lefebvre says trucks also offer a vast array of meal options.
"You can try so many different things," he says. "Unfortunately, in America, we all work so much, and our schedules don't allow us to sit down to a proper lunch. The truck can provide you great, quality options."
The options in food trucks are so vast, in fact, that The Hartman Group is no longer limiting its menu innovations research to mom and pop establishments.
"Now we're looking at the food trucks," she says. "Because from the food trucks, then it works its way to quick-serve restaurants and fast casual, and then it works itself into consumer packaged goods."
While Abbott says the food truck movement is being fueled by Millennials who are also bringing along their Baby Boomer parents, Villaman thinks the space has a way to go before it's fully accepted by the general public.
"Today, it's the foodies that are all over the food truck space, not the general public," he says. "What happens after the foodies embrace you is they tell their friends, and then the masses become more inclined to support it.
"So we feel it's only a matter of time until the public is embracing street food and mobile food in the same way it embraces brick and mortar."
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Wednesday night my University of Evansville Purple Aces pulled out a three-point road victory against Wichita State. It was the Aces' first win in Wichita since 2001.
The win gave the Aces a season sweep of the Shockers, a team that has spent a good part of the season ranked in the Top 25 and that will most likely be playing in the NCAA Tournament.
My euphoria was short-lived.
Yesterday Adidas unveiled alternate uniforms, including Zubaz-style shorts, for eight major college basketball programs: Louisville, UCLA, Baylor, Notre Dame, Kansas, and Cincinnati, along with the Notre Dame and Louisville women's teams. Teams will debut these new uniforms during their conference tournaments or the NCAA Tournament.
UCLA, Baylor, and the Louisville men will wear jerseys with sleeves.
I have strong feelings about sleeved basketball jerseys.
My Evansville Aces wore sleeved jerseys starting in the late 1940s through 1977 and again from 1986 until 2002. The sleeves brought Evansville five NCAA Division II National Championships and several Division I NCAA Tournament and NIT appearances.
Since eschewing the sleeves eleven years ago, the Aces have not won a conference regular season or tournament championship nor earned an NCAA or NIT bid.
Sleeves get results.
SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the few things in this world that I care about as much as the Evansville Purple Aces and their once-sleeved uniforms. I consider SpongeBob the pinnacle of children's television programming, if not of western civilization in general. (I'm watching it right now.)
In the 2006 episode "Wigstruck" (you can watch it on Netflix) SpongeBob stumbles upon a six-layer powdered wig. He wears the wig everywhere he goes—at work, on the street, at the movie theater, etc.—and becomes a target of ridicule for the other residents of Bikini Bottom.
SpongeBob is eventually shamed into discarding the wig. When he does, it is discovered by Ned of Ned and the Needlefish, a band whose record label dropped them on account of Ned going bald. Ned dons the wig, and the Needlefish get their record deal and become the biggest band in Bikini Bottom.
Before long, everyone in town is wearing a large, powdered wig. Everyone but SpongeBob.
My Purple Aces are SpongeBob.
We had sleeves for decades. In 2002 then-coach Steve Merfeld, then-athletic director Bill McGillis, and the players at the time decided to cut them off. Tradition was no longer reason enough to be a college basketball curiosity.
Now Louisville, UCLA, and Baylor—the Ned and the Needlefish of the NCAA—like the NBA's Golden State Warriors, will be wearing sleeves, if only part-time.
I can only hope that broadcasters during the Big East, Pac-12, Big 12, and NCAA Tournaments will remind viewers that Arad McCutchan, the longtime Evansville Aces coach who is now immortalized in the Basketball Hall of Fame, had the idea to wear sleeved jerseys more than 60 years ago, long before Adidas thought of it.
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On 12/11/10 12:39 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 07:04:20PM +0000, address@hidden wrote: >> On 2010/12/11 18:52:28, Valentin Villenave wrote: >>> That being said, if we're to start accepting such tricks in the >> default >>> distribution, then I can think of several great snippets that would >> also make >>> good candidates for inclusion :-) >> >> Maybe we could create a directory called hacks/, where items that we >> don't really want in the main code base but are of use to users could be >> stored. > > I tried to organize that during GDP. Nobody was interested. I > tried to get somebody to look into a few technical questions over > the summer: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-07/msg00407.html > but nobody was interested. > > Granted, that last email isn't terribly encouraging, but I stand > by the main points: > 1. somebody needs to do some research > 2. nothing is happening until 2.14 is out I agree with the main points. I think, though, that my proposal was different from Mike's. My proposal is a simple directory with hacks in it. Mike's is a modular architecture that supports documentation as well as .ly code. > >> If we started doing this, though, how would we distinguish between hacks >> that go only in the LSR and those that go in the hacks/ directory? > > That's the easiest part. One person takes responsibility as the > ly/ maintainer (or ly/hacks/, if you prefer), and *they* decide. > Or, given our collective disinterest in taking on > responsibilities, maybe that's the hardest part. :| > OK. > > There's a bunch of areas where we suffer from a lack of > organization, of course, but we have a plan for sorting those out, > and in six months or so they should all be settled. Our main > problem is that we have too many ideas and not enough work being > done to implement those ideas. In army terms, we need "boots on > the ground". OK. Carl
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Many people who follow a path of Witchcraft join a religion that seems more conducive to
the practice of the craft like Wicca. There are a few of us however, who for whatever
bizarre reason choose to stay in a religion that doesnt embrace the craft so easily,
namely Christianity.
Unfortunately, because of bigotry, fear and misunderstanding, witches of all paths have
more or less had to stay underground, with traditions developing independently from the
others. It shouldnt be surprising then that there is some confusion to the average by-
stander about what a witch even is.
It also doesnt help when the word witch is put interchangably with the word Wiccan as
this is not always the case. While, Wicca is a beautiful religious path, to make
the word witch always mean Wiccan, causes confusion when someone calls
him/herself a witch, but for whatever reason chooses to follow a different religious path.
Christianity is the right religious path for me. And no matter how
bizarre it might seem, witchcraft is one of the ways I choose to express that religion.
There are many ideas and beliefs that get mixed up with witchcraft. Some believe to be
a witch you have to believe in reincarnation among other things. (Note, Im not saying
this is a wrong belief, only that it isnt my personal belief. Believe it or not
there are some Christians who believe in Reincarnation. One cannot simply believe
something or not believe something just because it is the "standard" belief of others who
follow that religious path.) Reincarnation, however is a religious belief,
whereas, witchcraft is a practice.
Anyway...I know Im rambling off topic once again...but in the back of my mind Im
thinking of the non-christian witch, and the Christian fundie who might see this site and
be unable to understand it. One of the most positive things that I have gleaned so far
from this path is meeting other witches. And, not just Christian Witches, but witches of
all paths.
It is a positive thing I think to meet those people of other religious paths and be able
to see past the stereotypes for the first time. Growing up in a Hell fearing church it
is very refreshing to find that the church stereotypes of witches are all false. While
Christianity definitely has an ugly side...for me, the religion on the whole rang true.
There are a lot of things Christians get blamed for...but there is predjudice against
them as well as Witches. (However, its unfortunate that many witches dont feel like
they can be open about who they are, whereas a Christian can shout it from the rooftops
however, obnoxious.) I used to be very obsessed with finding The ultimate truth.
But, the problem with that was, how would I know it when I found it? I also used to
think...if I were born into a religion besides Christianity its very unlikely that I
would convert...simply because I would feel a strong attachment to that religion. I
think a lot of fundies get really caught up with the evangelizing thing.
But anyway...you could spend years and years and years studying all the different
religions but you still wouldnt have enough information to make an educated choice.
Somehow...I just dont think that God is trying to make this nearly as complex as we are.
The more I read and studied about Christianity, the more it really appealed to me. After
getting past the fundie beliefs and into some actually intelligent views on
Christianity, it really started to connect with me. But despite the fact that I was
seeing some truth in it, I knew that there was no way I could truly have a relationship
with a God I was afraid of.
And, I couldnt spend all my time seeing devils around every corner. In fact there
were two things that caused me to really shy away from developing any type of
relationship with God: 1. I was afraid that if I searched that I would find that there
was no God, but that instead he/she was a person we created so we wouldnt feel so alone
in the universe.
Another fear was that I would become a fundie...and be all religious and judging other
people. (I still worry about this one...because I know sometimes I judge
people...especially fundies.) When I was in high school I was against homosexuality,
interracial marriage, certain movies, witches, you name it.
I was a completely bigoted horribly self-righteous person...and sometimes I think now
that Ive moved very far in the other direction so that now Im self-righteous once
again, only this time against fundies.
I had some real issues with concepts like Hell. Slowly my viewpoint on this has
changed until I no longer believe in a literal Hell. I do believe in Heaven, and weirdly
enough I believe in a devil...but I dont believe that he is red with horns or anything.
I dont know exactly what I believe about him. Although I certainly believe
in personal responsibility and not blaming everything on a supernatural source
I hear Christians say all the time: The devil comes disguised as an angel
of light.
They use this scripture constantly to harp on all kinds of
behavior occult activity being one of them. My question is: How the Hell do they
think hes coming as an angel of light when they all think its evil to begin with?
If the devil does show up as an angel of light, my theory is that it is more likely that
he did it with the doctrine of Hell.
To me, that one doctrine is the most disgusting thing to come out of the Christian
faith. I couldnt hold Hitlers hand to a flame for five minutes (despite all his
cruelty two wrongs dont make a right, if I was able to torture him, and did, that would
make me evil too.) I thought if God did, that was a God that I didnt want to have
anything to do with.
I used to think God was just a big manipulator. That free will was a bunch of BS. I
mean how free can you possibly be if God is up there saying: Love me and do exactly
what the bible says or Ill torture you for eternity? Thats not love and thats not
free will. I think C.S. Lewis put it best when he said: In the end, there wont be
anyone in Hell who could have been happy in Heaven.
So, in order to make Christianity work for me, I had to find out if God was some evil
manipulator or if his messengers were. After reading a lot of different viewpoints on
the matter, I truly believe that God, the Christian God is not a manipulator out to
torture people. One of the most influential Christian books for me spiritually
was: Searching for a God to Love; The one you always wanted is really there. By: Chris
Blake. (It has played a big role in fundie detox.)
I also decided to not be a Sunday Christian, but to try to look for ways to be a more
spiritual person on a day to day basis. For every place that a fundie has tried to pull
out a bible scripture and twist its cultural meaning, or take it out of context, or take
it literally when it should have been taken figuratively, I found that I could find
something positive.
Things like taking care of the earth. And forgiving others. Having an authentic love
for people and nature. etc. I also started to explore ways to be creative with my
spirituality...namely witchcraft. (I have a lot to say about magick right here...but
itll have to wait until I get to that page.)
I also have decided to blend some of my celtic roots into it. Some Christian Witches
stop going to church because they no longer feel like they belong there or feel
hypocritical about going and then practicing witchcraft in private.
For me, however I need the community of church...however I switched denominations. I
found a wonderful home at the Episcopal church. Deep down, I think if I shared my path
with them in detail and explained it all to them, they wouldnt condemn me for it.
However, I choose to stay in the broom closet, for two reasons:
1. I live in a relatively small town that is VERY pentecostal! If I came out of the
closet, half the town would be praying for my deliverance from evil and the other half
would be afraid of me. and:
2. It is a private spiritual practice. I am a solitary practitioner...so there is no
reason for me to share. Only two people, outside of the online world know: my husband,
who was never a fundie, and one of my best friends, whos an atheist. Even
though Im not a Wiccan...there are some tenets of the Wiccan faith that I
believe very strongly in such as: Harm none. To come out of the broom closet would
definitely harm my family and friends emotionally.
I tend to sound judgemental and very obnoxious like Im right in my faith and have
the Truth which I can understand would be offensive to someone of another
faith system. More on that on the Relativism page.
I know a lot of Christian Witches have struggled with the question of Am I changing
religions and just not brave enough to let go of what I was raised believing? I dealt
with that temporarily also...but oddly enough, I feel as though my beliefs are
getting stronger since choosing to follow this path.
This whole thing just fits for me. If I was just a Plain Christian there would be a
huge part of my personality and creativity which would never be expressed. If I
changed religions to practice witchcraft within a group that would accept me more
readily as a witch, then I would be sacrificing many beliefs that ring true for
me. (and there is a growing community of Christian Witches...so that is quickly
becoming a moot point.)
So as bizzarre as Im sure it is to some...its who I am. Freedom of religions means ALL
religions...it means Wiccans, Pagans, it means Christians, so I guess it means
Christian Witches too.
Zoë Grace =)
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It is always so nice when grandkids get one-on-one time with the grandparents. No offense to the other 13 grandchildren, but I'm sure they all know what I'm talking about. Ashton was always looking for Grandpa and was so excited to help Grandpa in any way possible. One night I said "Ashton, are you ready for bed?" As he bounded up the stairs, he said, "Nope, I'm ready for GRANDPA!" That's when I took the pictures of the two of them on the couch watching "The Incredibles". So cute. Then, of course, Grandpa let Ashton mess around with his equipment at the studio. I was freaking out but I guess Grandpa probably knew how to fix whatever Ashton was doing.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 (PlayStation®Store)
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **
Neko Case "People Got A Lotta Nerve"
Steve Earle "Satellite Radio"
Lucinda Williams "Can't Let Go"
Drive-By Truckers "Three Dimes Down"
Old 97's "Timebomb (live)"
Jimmy Eat World "Futures"
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From the end user's perspective, Drivve | DM's security details are transmitted to an exceptionally easy-to-administer admin dashboard that lets you control access to all your assets at the user/group/role or cabinet/dossier/folder/file levels.
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It may be because your business is growing, with new offices, new markets. It may be because you're outsourcing some back-office operations and need to keep this extended team in the fold. It may also be because you have an entire team of sales people combing the countryside for new opportunities, and they simply need the same access to your knowledge pool even when they're on the road. However it's spelled out in your organization, achieving connectivity is an important one for all of us. With Drivve | DM, we've thrown down the gauntlet — never has staying connected to your document or content workflow been easier or more efficient.
Today, a business that isn't networked is, quite frankly, operating in the last century. Not that we have anything against the 20th century, it's just that we believe that where organization, communication, and responsiveness is concerned, 21st-century technology does offer some serious advantages. Such as less lost time looking for papers or tracking down internet access to retrieve that estimate before your meeting. And forget about needing to "stop by the office." Thanks to Drivve's innovative web-browser-oriented solutions, it's easy to manage documents from any computer. And with Drivve | DM for iPhone, your business can stay networked in a way that you just have to experience to believe. Anywhere you get reception, you've got access to your back office — now.
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Clever, elegant user interface speeds you into the fast lane with a flourish.
Let's face it. Traditional document management products have always been something of a battle. Overly confusing and hard to use, they've tended to discourage the use of even a low percentage of features. In short, they've given the task of managing docs a bad rap.
Isn't it about time someone got DM turned around (and you turned on)? You're probably thinking: Sure, Drivve sounds awesome, very sophisticated products, but it's got to be a nightmare to implement and master. And it costs money to train on a new program — when's the ROI?
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You see at Drivve, usability is the bedrock on which we build. There are a lot of impressive products on the market that can perform some amazing tricks. But when it comes to real solutions, a bunch of bells and whistles amount to a worthless heap if they can't be used quickly and correctly by every single member of your team, even the computer newbies. What's not built into our products? The need for long tuition. With Drivve, there's no added training or training expense to create drag. There's just the boosting of speed that comes from drafting, from the transmission of all that power we're packing into as streamlined a user interface as you're ever going to see.


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Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Review of Judith Richards, Mary Tudor (2008)
Judith M. Richards, Mary Tudor (Routledge, London and New York, 2008)
In 1557 the Venetian ambassador, Giovanni Michiel, wrote a lengthy report on the appearance and personality of Queen Mary I, that has become a valuable source in the examination of this figure. Mary was, he claimed, a woman of 'wonderful grandeur and dignity, knowing what became the dignity of a sovereign as well as any of the most consummate statesmen in her service'. Yet despite such praise Michiel still argued that because Mary was 'of a sex which cannot becomingly take more than a moderate part' in administrative affairs, she must have therefore taken a more passive role in government. The ambassador's claims show us the prejudice that Mary as a female ruler encountered throughout her reign, problems which Richards explores exceptionally well in this work.
Richard's biography is superb in analysing the subject of female rule in the sixteenth-century and in the context of the reign of Mary Tudor. Previous work on English female rule has focused almost predominately on Elizabeth I. Yet as Richards identifies, Mary preceded Elizabeth and successful met challenges including attempting to curb the power of her consort, Philip of Spain. Richards effectively pushes aside the traditional notion of a weak-willed Mary who was under her husband's thumb. Instead Mary appears as a ruler who was very wary of others encroaching upon her authority.
Aside from the useful discussions on queenship, there is also a revised and in-depth analysis of Mary's faith and religious policies. Richards rejects the notion that Mary was the blindly devoted Catholic of Protestant myth. Instead Mary actually encountered problems with the papacy and ultimately defied the pope by refusing to send Cardinal Reginald Pole back to Rome so he may be tried on charges of heresy. As Richards notes, 'her obedience to the Holy Father was always tempted by a strong sense of the proper limitations of papal authority within her kingdom' (p.218). Overall subtle comparisons between Mary and her father Henry VIII, are made. It has never been popular to consider that the pair had much in common, particularly in regards to religion. But as Richards shows, Mary was also favourable to the English Bible having encouraged the preparation of another during her reign. She also agreed with the Henrician settlement on certain points; for example she and Henry were in agreement on the subject of clerical celibacy and the absolute necessity of recognising the real presence at the mass. And of course both conflicted with the papacy, albeit in varying degrees.
Mary's relationship with France is covered well, and Richards presents the image of a queen who faced a rather hostile and often unreasonable French monarch. Richards implies that part of Henri II's disdain was over Mary's sex, reinforcing further the tribulations Mary faced as a queen regnant. Richards also argues that when England did go to war with the French, something historians have attacked as absolutely disastrous, there was a significant degree of support in England for the move. The biography also illustrates the alleged and genuine frustrations the English government had with the French prior to the declaration of war that indicates that decision to enter conflict was not solely or even mainly to do with support for the Hapsburgs.
However the biography is not without faults. I would have liked a larger section on the Marian persecutions as owing to its controversy and the fact that for many it has defined Mary and her reign, it is therefore a subject that needs much analysis. But perhaps Richards was making a point with the fact that only ten pages in her book are specifically dedicated to this. Her use of comparisons, between Mary's reign and the rest of Catholic Europe (and Protestant Europe), and with the reign of Elizabeth I, was very useful. Arguably she could have gone further in such comparisons in her general argument that the Marian burnings were not incredibly unique. Overall Richards clearly indicates Mary's role in the burnings and reveals an image of a queen who was actively involved in the policies of her reign. I think this is important to assert as Mary is a figure that can be liable to (and has actually been) represented in an extremely malicious or even very saintly fashion, both such views being gross exaggerations. Instead, as Richards shows us, she was an active sixteenth-century monarch like her father and her sister and just as we must recognise her participation in the successes of her reign, so we must identify her role in the actions which we are repulsed by.
In her own review of this book, Dr Lucy Wooding argued that more detail could have been included on the last three years of Mary's reign. This is a valid point as some things are skipped over. If I am not mistaken Richards failed to mention the formation of the Muscovy Company in 1555, which marked significant trade links between England and Russia. Overall Ireland and Wales are rarely (if ever in regards to the latter) mentioned in this work.
Despite these criticisms, Judith Richards work on Mary is an engrossing, innovative study which has enriched scholarship on this period and will be extremely useful for historians and students of this era. It is a shame that this book has not received much publicity, whilst another and less superior recent biography on Mary has. This book, though useful for academics, is also accessible for those who know little about Mary and her reign and want a well written and fascinating biography. It lacks the syrupy sentimental language of popular history books, yet still provides us with excellent detail about Mary's private life and character as well as the politics of her reign.
3 comments:
Thank you very much for this review. I think there are three new biographies of Mary I all making some of the same points about her reign. When writing about Mary in my book on the English Reformation, I tried to avoid both hagiography and special pleading. I hope these new biographies, and your studies, will have some effect on Mary's historical reputation.ReplyDelete
Thank you! Richards's work has unfortunately been overshadowed and I have noticed more people talking about Linda Porter's biography on Mary (which is widely available in stores). Whitelock's work is well researched, particularly in its analysis of primary material.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman (eds), Mary Tudor: Old New and Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, Dec 2009)
Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock (eds), Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Palgrave, date unknown).
I'm particularly interested in Hunt and Richards work, as hopefully the subject of Mary and sixteenth-century discourse on female rule will be discussed in more depth.
I have just finished my undergraduate degree and am starting my graduate studies in September. Hopefully by then I would have decided what area within Mary's reign I am going to focus upon for my dissertation. There are so many topics I would love to cover and I wish to discuss something original. But I am having a hard time deciding what this should be!
Your work on the English reformation sounds really interesting and I will definitely look out for it. Have you read Eamon Duffy's latest work on Catholicism under Mary Tudor? It is an intriguing read.
Thank you for that additional information. My book's title is "Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the English Reformation". No, Duffy's book is not available yet in the U.S. When I am in Oxford later this month I plan to buy a copy.ReplyDelete


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