![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Russell: Mary was 'good, easily influenced, inexpert in worldly matters, and a novice all round'. Her performance was hampered by bad luck, especially in foreign policy and economic conditions, she also lacked time given she only had five and a half years. Dickens): Mary's policies are unfairly presented as unrealistic and doomed to fail. ? Revisionist (Professor Russell, Jennifer Loach, Christopher Haigh, Eamon Duffy, A. Elton: Mary was 'arrogant, assertive, bigoted, stubborn, suspicious and rather stupid devoid of political skill, unable to compromise'. Pollard pronounced Mary's reign as a 'sterile interlude in Tudor history'. Elton): Mary's policies were unimaginative and counter-productive, they failed in three key areas: marriage (offended English nationalism and led to foreign war), foreign policy (led to loss of Calais), religion (offended nationalism, gave her the title 'Bloody Mary'). ![]()
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