tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post6265449178328859734..comments2023-09-27T03:46:36.401-07:00Comments on Piers Gaveston: The Siege at Scarborough Castle, 1312 – in fiction.Anerjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-64953795982190573042015-05-30T07:09:50.738-07:002015-05-30T07:09:50.738-07:00Omg Gabriele, you were brave! I can't stoma...Omg Gabriele, you were brave! I can't stomach that film! I can't stand Phillipa Gregory 's work - and she appears on TV as a 'historian' and gives her views as if they are the truth., Horribly, a guide at a castle told me she knows 'the truth' about Margaret Beaufort - needless to say, he got the history lesson of his life! Anerjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-78310871924129757342015-05-29T12:03:12.430-07:002015-05-29T12:03:12.430-07:00BTW, I watched that Other Boleyn girl film on TV a...BTW, I watched that Other Boleyn girl film on TV a few days ago. I was so tempted to start a drinking game, but I suspect I'd have been under the table halfway through and that says something; I can take several drams of cask strength Whisky without getting tipsy. ;-) Donizetti's opera version of <i>Anna Bolena</i> has fewer historical mistakes. Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-13134117578828250332015-05-18T10:51:34.557-07:002015-05-18T10:51:34.557-07:00LOL Gabriele - that's one way of looking Doher...LOL Gabriele - that's one way of looking Doherty's work!Anerjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-27201887546940892182015-05-16T10:59:50.864-07:002015-05-16T10:59:50.864-07:00That burial thing reminds me of those stupid argum...That burial thing reminds me of those stupid arguments and deliberate misreadings of sources in order to put the Teutoburg Forest battlefield someplace else than the archaeological finds have proven it to be - mostly out of misguided local patriotism.<br /><br />Looks like Isa's sexy beauty is Doherty's local patriotism. ;-)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-33218127929388415622015-05-15T12:51:21.582-07:002015-05-15T12:51:21.582-07:00Don't get me started on his non-fiction! I k...Don't get me started on his non-fiction! I know Kathryn how much Doherty's books annoy you. I wonder why he maintains Isabella and Mortimer are buried together? When it is so easily disproved? I just don't get why an 'academic'' perpetuates this myth.<br /><br />Doherty seems to think Isabella's beauty can change a man's sexuality - yeah, right........so boring!Anerjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-25536819410890158492015-05-15T01:36:32.185-07:002015-05-15T01:36:32.185-07:00Great post, Anerje. I am so sick of Doherty's ...Great post, Anerje. I am so sick of Doherty's horribly inaccurate non-fiction and author's notes in his equally inaccurate novels, which are full of countless silly, sloppy errors. He keeps repeating that Isabella was buried next to Mortimer, though he knows perfectly well it's not true, and in his Death of a King he changes Edward III's date of birth by eight months to accommodate his invention that Mortimer was Edward's real father - and doesn't acknowledge this change in his author's note.<br /><br />I am also well and truly beyond sick of his endless descriptions of Isabella's great beauty and desirability, put in the mouth of a woman (Mathilde) who's supposedly in love with a man but who just can't stop harping on all the time about Isabella's luscious beautiful body and lips and so on. He's obviously obsessed with her and her appearance. I feel like screaming 'Yes, she's gorgeous and sexy! I GET IT!!!!'<br /><br />The worrying thing is that Doherty has a doctorate from Oxford about Isabella and thus has a lot of credibility he really doesn't deserve, given that a) he doesn't know which of Isabella's brothers was king of France in 1320, b) thinks Edward II's sister Elizabeth was married to a man who died in 1061, and c) thinks that Margaret de Clare was called 'Joan of Gloucester' (Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II, pp. 13-14, 50, 64) *rolls eyes*<br /><br />http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/book-review-isabella-and-strange-death.htmlKathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-52937317119206681552015-05-13T12:15:27.722-07:002015-05-13T12:15:27.722-07:00Hi Kasia. I've sort of tried to be a bit less...Hi Kasia. I've sort of tried to be a bit less judgemental with authors, as friends constantly tell me to stop being so picky and 'it's only a film/book'. It's been so difficult LOL! But a so-called historian using that position to pass off a work of fiction as fact is too annoying for words! It falls at the first hurdle, so to speak, for me - if Edward was 'fed-up' of Piers,(as if!) why call him back and risk civil war? ???? Too silly for words!Anerjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-2988407315411918122015-05-13T00:44:25.791-07:002015-05-13T00:44:25.791-07:00Also, it seems that the author forgot to look at E...Also, it seems that the author forgot to look at Edward's actions preceding and following Piers's death. They speak for themselves. (Which I know thanks to you and Kathryn :-))Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415905019122111675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933105074141988999.post-16516091067788197802015-05-13T00:42:14.005-07:002015-05-13T00:42:14.005-07:00Fascinating post, Anerje! As far as I am concerned...Fascinating post, Anerje! As far as I am concerned, I do not trust authors, be it historical fiction or academic, who make glaring errors like Mr Doherty. One has to agree that the misplacing of Isabella's resting place is a blatant one and also I would call it basic. Odd, when we take into account it was made by sb for who admires the queen so much. Perhaps I am a little bit "choosy", but one blatant mistake is enough to make me both cautious and distrastful :-) Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415905019122111675noreply@blogger.com