Re: Reiersgord's _The Kensington Rune Stone--Its Place In History_
- From: Tom McDonald <tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:10:03 -0500
Eric Stevens wrote:
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It is believed that there was more than one form of plague involved in the 'Black Death'. See http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/06.shtml for example.
Eric,
Do you have Reiersgord's book, or did you just borrow it? If you have it to hand, it might be useful for you to help me keep up, and to share the research you did when you were reading it.
Reiersgord has a fairly extensive bibliography, but he wrote the book in a more popular style, using few direct in-text references. Maddeningly, those few references I've read so far relate to relatively fine points, and are of limited value in supporting his views. He makes sweeping statements of what he considers facts, but doesn't seem to reference support for them other than sometimes mentioning the name of a person who wrote in such support.
I do not wish, at this early time, to judge Reiersgord's work as a whole, but on the issue of references the book so far is much like Fell's _Bronze Age America_; lots of assertions, some general references to people who support bits of the ideas, but very few specific references that one can easily follow.
Perhaps that will change as I get deeper into the book.
<snip> -- Tom McDonald http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/ .
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