• BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’d always taken the Bathory legend at face value, but a while back I heard this song and it made me wonder

    I’m no historian, so obviously I’m not an authority in the matter. But the more life experience I get the more I’m realizing that even recorded history has institutional bias

    Love the meme though, get it girl!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Critical examination of sources is always vital for History as an academic discipline! We may never know the truth of any given historical event, but we can get closer to it by careful analysis of the evidence.

      • MentalEdge@ani.socialEnglish
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        5 days ago

        When looking into the sources used to establish histories, it’s hilarious how often you find there’s just a bunch of historians trying to descipher exactly how seriously they should take one historical figure smacktalking another historical figure, or how accurate they should consider someone’s recounting of their own exaggerated god-like deeds.