Melanie Schuessler wrote:
There is a short bad books list at Jessamyn's Closet. The lady is
very nice and I'm sure she would welcome suggestions for additions to
the list.
http://jessamynscloset.com/badbooks.html
Some of those books really are not that bad. What a lot of people forget
when doing research of any kind is that you need more than a single
source. I don't know if they still teach that in grade school, to use at
least 3 sources -- and not one of them can be the encyclopedia. By the
time you hit high school or college it should have been taught, but
there still seem to be a lot of adults who base their evidence off a
single drawing or portrait.
Further, the list on that website was taken (without credit) from an
article in the SCA publication Compleat Anachronist #39 Costume Studies
II, which itself was reprinted from a newsletter series called "Seams
Like Old Times". The issue should still be available from the SCA stock
clerk for $4 or $5. There is a lengthy annotation for each entry which
explains WHY it is a bad source, and the bibliography -- which is 33
pages long -- also has a number of good recommended sources in it.
Although most of the books listed date from the 40's to the 70's and
have been out of print for decades, they still show up and can be useful
sources.
Dawn
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