Doing comparative history really highlights how differently historiographical traditions approach similar sources.
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Maybe there are articles or books that I'm missing, but I've been doing a lot of looking around and I'm not finding a lot. And what about these Northumbrian annals from the 8th century? They get mentioned here and there, but I didn't even realize that they were probably early
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Until very recently, when I was reading on Symeon of Durham and the continuation of bede's relation to two MSS of the ASC.
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It just doesn't get highlighted anywhere, at least not in a way that I've seen.
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Also, later hagiographies: I've had a hell of a time trying to sort out the hagiographies on Dunstan, and when they date. I still haven't figured it out. I wrote down something ages ago about how one of his hagiographies preserved an inauguration. I just need it for a footnote.
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But I can't find anything now, and I'm trying to find anything on it but I can't, because people also use the Vita Oswaldi for histories on Dunstan so it's just ?????
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Also, a bugbear: what Wessex was doing circa 900 cannot without a doubt be applied unilaterally to Mercia and Northumbria and elsewhere 800 down. It might, but assuming so is a fallacy and also makes it out to appear that the English kingdoms from the late 6th c
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and up can just be sort of absorbed into a unit, and while they obviously shared a culture, history, language, etc. there were regional cultural differences as there always are everywhere on Earth.
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