On the Perils and Pleasures of Confronting Pseudohistory

R. Fritze

DOI:10.1353/HSP.0.0067

Corpus ID: 144988932

On the Perils and Pleasures of Confronting Pseudohistory

@article{Fritze2009OnTP,
  title={On the Perils and Pleasures of Confronting Pseudohistory},
  author={R. Fritze},
  journal={Historically Speaking},
  year={2009},
  volume={10},
  pages={2 - 5}
}

R. Fritze

Published 2009

History

Historically Speaking

ack in 2000 I attended a meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Cleveland. At the banquet, I was seated at a table with two scholars who had written biographies of Columbus. During the course of conversation, it came out that in 1993 I had published a critical encyclopedia of theories about people who had visited America before Columbus. One of the Columbus biographers was quite interested in the topic while the other responded, “Why would you want to write about that?” Now… CONTINUE READING

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