Correspondence

Contact and corrections

Corrections, sources and disagreements are all welcome. Tell us which entry, which sentence, and what the evidence is.

What makes a correction useful

A pointer to a published source beats a recollection, and a specific sentence beats a general objection. If the scholarship is genuinely split, say so — an entry that records a live disagreement is doing its job, and we would rather widen it than pick a side.

Every correction that changes an entry is logged at the foot of that entry.