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Historical difficulties and contested events

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A series of critical essays examining celebrated anecdotes and disputed episodes from antiquity to the modern era, assessing their credibility by comparing sources, exposing contradictions, and tracing mechanisms of embellishment and error. The author applies documentary and philological scrutiny to popular traditions and biographical legends, discusses methodological approaches for weighing evidence, and highlights how repetitions and misreadings perpetuate falsehoods. Short bibliographical notes and an appendix illustrate the processes used to sift probable fact from invention and to rehabilitate or reject contested claims.

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Title: Historical difficulties and contested events

Author: Octave Delepierre

Release date: September 1, 2023 [eBook #71537]

Language: English

Original publication: London: John Murray, 1868

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HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES

AND

CONTESTED EVENTS.

L’histoire n’est le plus souvent,
et surtout à distance, qu’une fable
convenue, un qui pro quo arrangé
après coup, et accepté.
(Sainte-Beuve, Nouveaux Lundis.
Tome 6ᵐᵉ, p. 8.)
Les vérités se succèdent du pour
au contre à mesure qu’on a plus de
lumières.
(Pascal).