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Originally posted by Shkspr
The customer reviews you may have read at Amazon are fairly accurate, as Oldenbourg's background as a novelist creeps into her narrative style. As long as you remember to properly account for her biases, though, it shouldn't prove a problem. At the very least, the bias she brings to the topic is fairly easy to notice, which makes it easy to adjust for.
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Sounds like excellent fodder (read: low hanging fruit) to me!
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Your syllabus makes it clear that large scale survey titles are not really appropriate for this project, and so I wonder if a book on "The Crusades" might not be too broad.
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Good point; I had not considered that. We'll see what the professor has to say.
Can I infer from your response that you have some formal training in history? If so, I'd be interested to hear your perspective. I went into this program fully expecting to major (actually, specialize) in philosophy, but the more I dig into historiography, the more I interested in history I become. At the very least, it seems an easier subject to get my head around...