An undergraduate art student # 2

Source Text:

Most information in chronicles necessarily derives in the first instance form people who had first-hand knowledge of the persons and places referred to, or who had witnessed, perhaps as participants, the events described. However, this information may have passed form mouth to mouth before being recorded in writing, and the version we have today may not be the original record; it may well have been copied from an older written version and perhaps deliberately modified in the process. … The creativity of the copier lay sometimes in correction of the original narrative and at other times in the chronological extension of it to bring it up to date. (p. 100)

Source:

Van Houts, Elisabeth “Chronicles and Annals” in Academic Reading: reading & writing in the disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2002. (pp. 100-122)

Writer’s Text

Van Houts (1999), in her discussion of medieval society, illustrated that first-person evidence is preferred and deemed as more accurate than third-person evidence.

Writer’s comment:

I got citations mostly from the conclusions on the articles. I just read the conclusion and that’s where the main information that I need will be.