Re: Royalty for Commoners

John P. DuLong wrote:

> Happy Texan wrote:
> > For some time, I have been trying to obtain a copy of Stuart's Royalty
> > for Commoners, 4th Edition. Does anyone know if a 5th Edition is
> > forthcoming, or a reprint of the 4th will be done?
> > Douglas, I have really enjoyed my copy of Plantagenet Ancestry, great
> > job.
> > Thanks! Leah
>
> You should search the archives of postings on soc.genealogy.medieval
> through Google Groups for reviews of this book. It got pretty bad
> reviews. I seem to recall that the author has failed to make fixes of
> problems pointed out in previous editions. After you check the past
> posting I suspect you will want to save your money.

This could equally well refer to either Stuart or Richardson, I
suppose, but since Stuart is dead and Leah has already bought
Richardson's book it's hard to tell which is meant.

Both men's books also got syrupy "good" reviews, of course, and some of
these for PA3 at least are also in the archive.

In common they have the same publisher and a similarly fraudulent
approach to citation. Stuart cannot have even glanced at many of the
works in his bibliography, while we know that Richardson couldn't make
sense of primary sources in his & as to secondary sources he failed to
credit properly a number of people whose research and analysis he
copied.

Peter Stewart

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Relevant Pages

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