To-Do 20/5/2014

SPLIT TO-DO LIST INTO MANAGEABLE SECTIONS!

Introduction:

• Which historians have presented the rebellion of royal sons as inevitable?
• Check historiography of Henry II, William the Conqueror, Edward II, Henry IV (?)
• Which historians have demonstrated the good father/ruler dichotomy? 
• Historiography of Edward I, what about Louis the Pious? 
• Read the William Aird article on Robert Curthose in D M Hadley Masculinity in Medieval Europe (305.310940902 MAS)
• Use it for: 
• example of fatherhood
• Oedipus complex historiography
• Good father/ruler

Masculinity/Historiography:

• Read Josh Tosh's The Pursuit of History 
• add the notes I took from JT's books before I left for history of masculinity studies
• Angela V. John - check her position on masculinity studies
• what has she written?
• Expand on the R. W. Connell section - check notes in Zotero
• Ibid. that of Karras
• Add in the stuff from the EMods Alexandra Shepard
• Research Elizabeth Foyster's work

Kingship Masculinity Historiography

• Rewrite, particularly about the way in which kings are treated in the historiography compared with queens. 
• In the queenship historiography whose work am I aiming for with this about Edward?

Other Masculinities:

• Rewrite the other masculinities section to get rid of the holy men bit as discussed with Pat
• Decide if I think other "masculinities" or "masculinity" on a spectrum 

Edward Historiography

• Add in Ormrod book and Ormrod article about family
• Add in Mortimer book
• Etc

Examples of Fatherhood

Henry II

• Continue shaping the discussion about Henry's sons and so on
• Research Charlemagne's policy regarding sons - Michael's essay? 
• French policy - which French king did it? 

Richard II

• Develop section on comparison between Henry and Richard
• Role as non-father as a factor of his deposition. 
• Chris Given-Wilson article in 1990s about Richard?
• Bibliography of Chronicles of the Revolution?

Edward's Practice of Fatherhood

The Fatherly King

• Add in anecdotal evidence of interaction with the children from Ormrod
• Discuss Edward's grief at the death of his children
• Tombs discussion - William of Hatfield, Blanche and William
• Joan - the letter to Alfonso - develop this into a more sustained discussion
• Was he Father of the Nation in any way? 
• Develop the section about travelling with his children, as Beth Anderson postulated as a measurement of desire to keep them close, into a more complete and synthesised discussion

The Kingly Father

Number of Children

• Revise numbers of children for John of Gaunt, counting the Beauforts as illegitimate, using the ILLs - particularly the Issue of the Kings of England book I copied before coming out. 
• Add in references to the Issue book in the footnotes
• Continue the discussion of the amount of children being important and the table of amounts of children

Military Conquests

• Link the lack of connection between the military conquests and the children's births to Edward's policy on family and honour and so on. 
• Check out the ODNB of Edward of Woodstock (save all the relevant articles to the sources folder for later use) 
• Develop paragraph about Edward allowing/ not allowing Edward of Woodstock to rule - find the differing opinions and synthesise them

Marriages

• Develop the bit about marriages being part of the policy - use the stuff I got just before I went from the Calendar Rolls (?) about betrothals etc.
• Read more of the Rolls for more evidence

Edward and his Dynasty

• Read PC's article Give Me Chastity (saved in Sources) about Edward the Confessor
• Make notes from the Ormrod article 'Monarchy, Martyrdom and Masculinity: England in the Later Middle Ages' in Holiness and Masculinity and add them here

Tombs

• Find somewhere which says that Edward I wanted to be in Westminster Abbey.

Management of Sons/Children

• Develop the section about Edward's policy about the sons' roles - did it work?
• Provide primary evidence that Edward tried to make his sons demi-kings and then add secondary sources
• I'm repeating the stuff about Edward of Woodstock and Aquitaine here - should they be combined here? Elsewhere?
• Balance the opinions on Edward and Edward and Aquitaine - did he let him have control?
• Be more clear about the timeline of events regarding the births of his children and potential heirs. When would he have felt secure? Link to Black Death problems - is it repetitive? 

New To-Dos:

• Review the notes made by PC and KL on my thesis. 
• Search PRO for titles granted to sons (daughters too?)
• Write up meeting online

Conference Paper To-Do List

So I'm speaking at a conference in June and I have yet to pull together my conference paper.

Left to do:

• read Thomas of Walsingham about Henry IV as a prince
• find my notes on Vita Henrici Quinti
• add in the stuff about Edward's marriage policy
• ask for a meeting with PC and KL to practice before I go
• print reimbursements form for supervisor signature
• create powerpoint

Updated To-Do List 19 May 2014

Since I've come back from Australia I've tidied up my thesis and done some of the niggling jobs which I've been putting off for ages. I've been through my Zotero to add in the stuff which I'd saved for later but never got round to. I'm up to about 'p' so not much more left to do. I've also done some of my to-do list which I made whilst I was there!

Introduction:

• Which historians have presented the rebellion of royal sons as inevitable?
• Check historiography of Henry II, William the Conqueror, Edward II, Henry IV (?)
• Which historians have demonstrated the good father/ruler dichotomy? 
• Historiography of Edward I, what about Louis the Pious? 
• Read the William Aird article on Robert Curthose in D M Hadley Masculinity in Medieval Europe (305.310940902 MAS)
• Use it for: 
• example of fatherhood
• Oedipus complex historiography
• Good father/ruler

Masculinity/Historiography:

• Read Josh Tosh's The Pursuit of History 
• add the notes I took from JT's books before I left for history of masculinity studies
• Angela V. John - check her position on masculinity studies
• what has she written?
• Expand on the R. W. Connell section - check notes in Zotero
• Ibid. that of Karras
• Add in the stuff from the EMods Alexandra Shepard
• Research Elizabeth Foyster's work

Kingship Masculinity Historiography

• Rewrite, particularly about the way in which kings are treated in the historiography compared with queens. 
• In the queenship historiography whose work am I aiming for with this about Edward?

Other Masculinities:

• Rewrite the other masculinities section to get rid of the holy men bit as discussed with Pat
• Decide if I think other "masculinities" or "masculinity" on a spectrum 

Edward Historiography

• Add in Ormrod book and Ormrod article about family
• Add in Mortimer book
• Etc

Examples of Fatherhood

Henry II

• Continue shaping the discussion about Henry's sons and so on
• Research Charlemagne's policy regarding sons - Michael's essay? 
• French policy - which French king did it? 

Richard II

• Develop section on comparison between Henry and Richard
• Role as non-father as a factor of his deposition. 
• Chris Given-Wilson article in 1990s about Richard?
• Bibliography of Chronicles of the Revolution?

Edward's Practice of Fatherhood

The Fatherly King

• Add in anecdotal evidence of interaction with the children from Ormrod
• Discuss Edward's grief at the death of his children
• Tombs discussion - William of Hatfield, Blanche and William
• Joan - the letter to Alfonso - develop this into a more sustained discussion
• Was he Father of the Nation in any way? 
• Develop the section about travelling with his children, as Beth Anderson postulated as a measurement of desire to keep them close, into a more complete and synthesised discussion

The Kingly Father

Number of Children

• Revise numbers of children for John of Gaunt, counting the Beauforts as illegitimate, using the ILLs - particularly the Issue of the Kings of England book I copied before coming out. 
• Add in references to the Issue book in the footnotes
• Continue the discussion of the amount of children being important and the table of amounts of children

Military Conquests

• Link the lack of connection between the military conquests and the children's births to Edward's policy on family and honour and so on. 
• Check out the ODNB of Edward of Woodstock (save all the relevant articles to the sources folder for later use) 
• Develop paragraph about Edward allowing/ not allowing Edward of Woodstock to rule - find the differing opinions and synthesise them

Marriages

• Develop the bit about marriages being part of the policy - use the stuff I got just before I went from the Calendar Rolls (?) about betrothals etc.
• Read more of the Rolls for more evidence

Edward and his Dynasty

• Read PC's article Give Me Chastity (saved in Sources) about Edward the Confessor
• Make notes from the Ormrod article 'Monarchy, Martyrdom and Masculinity: England in the Later Middle Ages' in Holiness and Masculinity and add them here

Tombs

• Find somewhere which says that Edward I wanted to be in Westminster Abbey.

Management of Sons/Children

• Develop the section about Edward's policy about the sons' roles - did it work?
• Provide primary evidence that Edward tried to make his sons demi-kings and then add secondary sources
• I'm repeating the stuff about Edward of Woodstock and Aquitaine here - should they be combined here? Elsewhere?
• Balance the opinions on Edward and Edward and Aquitaine - did he let him have control?
• Be more clear about the timeline of events regarding the births of his children and potential heirs. When would he have felt secure? Link to Black Death problems - is it repetitive? 

New To-Dos:

• Review the notes made by PC and KL on my thesis. 
• Search PRO for titles granted to sons (daughters too?)
• Write up meeting online