The Saint and the Count

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count , Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks