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qqueenofhades · 1 year ago

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Alice Albinia's The Britannias is a fascinating book on many levels but also the prime reason why writing about history, especially premodern history, double-especially premodern women's history, is not so easy as just quoting some writers utterly without context/critical scaffolding/enquiry/rigorous methodology and doesn't actually prove what you want it to prove, even if the point is one to which we might otherwise be sympathetic.

#hilary for ts #history #women in history #medieval history #apparently this book is being nominated for women's prize/nonfiction awards and like.#it's an excellent collection of personal essays #it says many interesting sociological things about modern britain #it does present a few loosely academic arguments i would like to look more into #but it is giving me an Itch the more i read and i just. need to once again state that doing history #or at least doing history *well*#is a skill you have to train for!#you can't just go in and Vibe it!#anyway. yes. further rant available on request. alas.

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