Christopher Columbus’s Origins August 24, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
There are many different kinds of historical controversies. But Beachcombing’s favourite by far are what he thinks of as ‘identity debates’: nice examples of which include the arguments over the location of Atlantis, the ‘real’ King Arthur and the ‘true’ Shakespeare. Identity debates are characterized by four things: (i) an orthodox academic position; (ii) multiple [...]
