History 1810E Lecture Notes - Secondary Source, Venice, Arguin

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1810E
• Professor: Margaret Mc Glynn

Document Summary

Last week how medieval europeans thought of geography, thought of the world in a very different way, realize that they knew very different things and understood them in very different ways. Secondary sources what is a secondary source? someone"s interpretation of a primary source secondary sources are based on primary sources reinterpretations of a story. Putting the bits and pieces together in order to answer a question. Primary sources wont give you the info in the most complete way secondary sources makes you rethink primary sources. They give you access to accumulated wisdom on a subject. Secondary sources allows you to not have to constantly reinvent the wheel. Secondary sources can always be wrong accept with a grain of salt. Secondary sources will bring a range of voices together to give you a sense of the past. Good secondary source writer will bring together a variety of voices and pinpoint the good and bad points.