#I am also now slightly paranoid about which medieval historians were cavorting with which fascist/occultist dipshits so this may be part of

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Realizing now that I'm done with Latin intensive I can get started somewhat with my cathargate liveblogging. Pegg's first essay 'The Historians' Illusion" alone is going to take forever, but tbh I think going through it slowly and summarizing it as I go along makes for better understanding in general. He spends the first paragraph being kind of dramatic, but in the subsequent paragraphs which I was initially annoyed at for getting into the historiography as opposed to the primary sources themselves, actually now that I'm trying to map this out cleanly in google docs its useful and also interesting. Why does everything come back to the Germans