Re: Reading List

celia <c_a_blay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul J Gans wrote:



Just remember that he was writing neither history nor
geography. He was writing a theological tract to show
that falling away from pure Catholicism led to disasters
in the land.

Facts, details, and whatever get moulded to fit this
thesis. Inconvenient details are left out, convenient
ones are embroidered.

Read as history with great caution.

----- Paul J. Gans

That was also Bede's motivation and as most chroniclers
came from within the church such bias can be assumed
in most sources. How can relative reliability be judged ?

By intercomparing sources, by evaluating what is written
against the need to show the actions of God, and by
estimating the probabilities.

And you come out understanding that there are no facts
in this business. Only probabilities.

---- Paul J. Gans
.

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