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This is a serious question...What is considered credible historical documentation?
This is a serious question...What is considered credible historical documentation?
The real thing to remember is that you do not have control of history and you cannot bend it to meet your needs.
The real thing to remember is that you do not have control of history and you cannot bend it to meet your needs.
That is not the way history has been recorded . . . historically.
The victors and powerful ensure that it is recorded the way they wanted it to have happened.
I think that at times the "common" thing is overdone, the uncommon or unusual is perfectly acceptable if documentable.some have a "it's gotta be common to be correct" attitude which leaves out much of historu as to be common or average there is an equal spectrum on both sides of the average.Nothing wrong with going the common route but it is not the only "proper" path.
Now don't take this wrong, I'm not trying to be an @#$...but if someone found a diary from great, great, great uncle John that wrote about his using his much coveted kukri on his treks in search of beaver pelts, would that be credible enough?
O.K. what is 'common'???? Does it make sense that MOST of our 'documentation' is NOT based on the common ? Early writers didnt write much about normal, mundane, everyday things.
Primary documentation is not just diaries of the upper-class. Being poor didn't necessarily mean you couldn't write or convey your story to someone who could. There are many narratives from what you refer to as the "lower class".
I used to be in the SCA, and got more than my fill of this nonsense of "Greetings! My name is Malcolm Haasam Wong, I was born in the Hebrides but captured by Viking traders and sold in the bazaar in Tripoli, where I eventually gained my freedom by converting to Islam, and the Grand Vizier made me his ambassador to the court of the Emperor of China: that's why I'm carrying a claymore, and a composite Turkish bow...."
I am so glad to have moved away from all THAT manure as well.
SCA stands for "Society of Compulsive Authenticity."
Jon
I saw the topic some time back and did not even open the post then,it was so absurd that I found no desire to be a part of it........... sometimes it is pointless to offer an opinion based on fact rather than fancy, and most of these forums are strongly driven by the latter due to a very shallow level of historic interest......I wonder if a set of numchucks would fit in my haversack????????
"With the first shots of the Civil War, the Camel Military Corps was as good as dead. Most of the animals were auctioned off, although a few escaped into the desert where most were shot by prospectors and hunters as pests."
*Confederates belonging to Company B of the 43rd Mississippi Regiment, from an unknown source managed to secure a camel. In a forced march toward Iuka, Mississippi, just prior to the battle of Corinth, the camel blundered into the line of march and spooked horses so badly that there was a terrible stampede. To them, it seemed just as well when "the camel" was killed by a mini ball during the siege of Vicksburg. http://15thnewyorkcavalry.org/trivia.htm
Bethel Coopwood,qv Confederate spy and Texas lawyer, captured fourteen from Union forces. During the Civil War eighty camels and two Egyptian drivers passed into Confederate hands. The camels soon were widely scattered; some were turned out on the open range near Camp Verde; some were used to pack cotton bales to Brownsville; and one found its way to the infantry command of Capt. Sterling Price, who used it throughout the war to carry the whole company's baggage. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/quc1.html
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