[diss] tonight's word-count exchange

[angevin2]

Word count: 9354.
Lambard tally: No news here. Have gotten sidetracked by Yorkist pageantry.

commodorified is gaining on me at 5945!

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[angevin2]

That would probably fit, too.

(It's a completely nutty pageant, though -- it was put on to welcome the future Edward V to Coventry in 1474, though since the prince was about three at the time I doubt he really appreciated the effort. It opens with someone representing Richard II saying that the royal bloodline has been restored, and then there's a whole lot of weird shit with random patriarchs and Edward the Confessor and St. George.)

[lblanchard]

Mmmm. There's a lot of Richard II imagery in my all-time favorite ms -- a genealogy of Edward IV here in Philly, lavishly illustrated. (FLP MS Lewis E201 if you're keeping track of such things.) Ralph Griffiths dates it as a 1461 production and I think Kathleen Scott concurs. It drags in the --drat, I forget the term, something like "attributed" arms meaning heraldr made up after the fact -- of every significant patriarch in Geoffrey of Monmouth, including Brutus, Pandrasus et al.

[angevin2]

Oh, cool! My diss is about 16th-century portrayals of Richard II (and, more broadly, about the intersection of fiction and history in Elizabethan England and the general inability of anybody to write history from a culturally authorized viewpoint) and at the moment I'm thinking about how and how much to address all the accumulated pre-16th-c. iconographic baggage without just saying "go read Louisa Duls and Paul Strohm."