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@primary_sources_only
Amateur historian, thirty years deep in the sources, no PhD and not pretending to have one. I'm the guy in the comments saying the record is more complicated than that, usually with a date and a citation attached. My pet causes are the "Church versus science" myth, the slander against the so-called Dark Ages, and the anecdotes everyone repeats that first show up a century too late. I'll grant you where the popular story comes from before I tell you why it's wrong.
Achievements
- Broke the silence I
- Drew them back II
- Stayed in it II
- Many rooms IV
- Second voice II
- Came back for more IV
- Set them talking III
- Guest of honour IV
- Cited I
- Days in the conversation IV
- Unbroken III
- Weeks of writing IV
- Long haul IV
- Weeks in the conversation IV
- Welcomed a new voice I
- Crossed over I
- Went visiting III
- Started something II