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unusual facts about primary sources



Caxton Gibbet

There are a number of folk tales reported on various websites and in secondary sources of people being hanged at Caxton, none of which can be verified from primary sources.


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Abiru clan

It is believed the clan may have been derived from the Taira clan, but the validity of this notion is not fully evident from primary sources.

Battle of Ajnadayn

Regarding the primary sources, first must be noticed the absence of any of Byzantine provenience; possibly, according to Walter Kaegi, because what Byzantine material we have may conflate the battle with other Byzantine defeats such as Dathin and Yarmouk.

Chicago Swordplay Guild

The primary sources for the Guild’s Bolognese Swordsmanship training come from five works from the 16th Century: an Anonymous text of c.1550, Antonio Manciolino (Opera Nova, 1531), Achille Marozzo (Opera Nova, 1536), Angelo Viggiani (Lo Schermo, written c. 1550 and published posthumously in 1575) and Giovanni Dall'Agocchie (Dell’arte di Scrimia, 1575).

Chihab al-Umari

al-Umari visited Cairo shortly after the Malian Mansa Kankan Musa I's pilgrimage to Mecca, and his writings are one of the primary sources for this legendary hajj.

Compter

The Compter's Commonwealth (1617), by William Fennor, was a work written from the author's experience of imprisonment at London's Wood Street compter, and is regarded by many historians as one of the principal primary sources for assessment of English 16th century prison conditions.

Devotio Moderna

Garcias de Cisneros the abbot of the abbey of Montserrat was influenced by the Devotio Moderna (as well as Louis Barbo) and his book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i.e. "exercises for the spiritual life" became one of the primary sources for the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola.

Dublin Bus Route 46A

Paul Howard, the writer of the satiricial Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books (Sunday Tribune) and newspaper columns has claimed that his journeys on the 46A and 10 are primary sources for the character and events.

Garcias de Cisneros

His book Ejercitatorio de la vida espiritual, i.e. "exercises for the spiritual life" was published at Montserrat in 1500 and was an important book on formal prayer and Christian meditation which influenced Saint Ignatius of Loyola, becoming one of the primary sources for his Spiritual exercises.

Jesuit Historical Institute

The Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu (MHSI) are critical editions of primary sources from the first centuries of the Society of Jesus’ history.

Joshua Fry Speed

In 1999, author and gay activist Larry Kramer claimed that he had uncovered new primary sources which shed fresh light on Lincoln's sexuality.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Historical novelist Mary Renault, in the preface to her biography of Alexander Fire from Heaven, discusses the various sources which she studied in preparation for her work, expressing considerable exasperation with Curtius who "had access to invaluable primary sources, now lost", which in her opinion he misunderstood and garbled.

Roy P. Johnson

He captured moments in frontier history at a time when oral history and personal reminiscence could still fill in the blank spaces left by official histories and biographies, producing what remains one of the primary sources for Red River Valley history.

Sabina Welserin

It is one of a very few primary sources for the history of German cuisine.

Sigil

Scribal abbreviation (sigla), a symbol used to identify manuscripts or other primary sources in library catalogues, bibliographic discussions, or other forms of bibliographic or textual criticism

Social history of Canada

It is quite separate from Genealogy, though often drawing on the same primary sources such as censuses and family records.

Trial of Socrates

Primary sources for accounts of the trial are given by two of Socrates' friends, Plato and Xenophon; well known later interpretations include those of the journalist I. F. Stone and the classics scholar Robin Waterfield.

Vineta

A thesis formulated by Goldmann und Wermusch placed Vineta near Barth, pointing to a possiblly different course of the Oder in the Middle Ages and a creative reading of the primary sources outlined above.