Leah Shopkow

This is a really thoughtful, methodical primer on how to approach primary source analysis—particularly pre-modern European sources—aimed at use in the undergraduate classroom. Leah Shopkow does a great job in going back to first principles and walking readers through considerations such as positionality, genre, source analysis, and historiography. She takes as her example source Stephen of Fougères’ twelfth-century hagiography of Vitalis of Savigny. I think this would make a great core text in a historical methods course.… (más)