This whole thread, but especially this. The ppl we know about, the aristocracy, went right on marrying their relatives, often with dispensations. The majority of the population? No evidence. I haven’t read the paper but based on press coverage there’s a GIGO thing going on here.https://twitter.com/AdmiralHip/status/1192877317732868097 …
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Understandably consid. cost of paper, personnel, preservation, etc. I had a look at some 17-cent. loan books at
@TCDResearchColl and someone used them to do calculations! And ripped out half pages! And that in an institut. revolving around paper and books. -
Yeah the preservation of older knowledge in books goes only as far as how much later readers considered that stuff valuable. How many MSS were ripped up to make new ones? Probably countless.
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