[Northkeep] Important Days in history (Jerry Herring)

Kathryn Helstrom kiamichikate at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 14:12:39 PDT 2011


In doing medieval research it has been my bane to find thoroughly "accurate"
and "reliable" sources to provide conflicting dates.  In related research, I
found that many chroniclers of the day did have different calendars that
were off by days and even weeks from their neighbors', even within the same
kingdom.  That is why scribes often recorded dates as "the morning before
St. Martin's day" or "the Thursday following Michaelmas."  Then, if there
was confusion over the exact day, they could blame it on the priests and/or
the church, because they were the official keepers of the calendars.

I have found no less than three primary sources for the Second Crusade which
conflict on dates of battles, meetings, ship departures, etc. by as much as
five weeks. It's infuriating!  So, the conversation here is very typical of
a conversation of scribes and chroniclers of the era.

Franziska

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Chuck Kaun <jack_a_lope31 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Indeed,
>
> I was looking and there are several sources that are contradicting each
> other.  Some stating that William left on the 27th and arrived on the same
> day, some state the 28th.  Some are dating the battle of Hastings on the
> 13th of oct and some on the 14th.
>
> Either way it was a fun little thing Ian.  Thank you
>
>
> Karl
>
>
> > From: Jerry Herring <j.t.herring at sbcglobal.net>
> > To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Important Days in history
> > Message-ID: <1317134891.21057.YahooMailRC at web83303.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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> >
> > Without disputing anyone's details the sources I looked up said that the
> Battle
> > of Stamford Bridge occurred on September the 25th and Duke William landed
> at
> > Pevensey on the 27th. I am not saying my sources are any more accurate
> than any
> > other. Going through a whole citing of research here might only muddy the
> > waters. I think for my part that I will simply say that sources are
> available to
> > argue the exact dates of the landing, and that it was good fun for people
> to try
> > and guess what the importance of the dates were. I do hope people enjoyed
> trying
> > the guessing?
> >
> > Kindly
> > Ian
>
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