I've been thinking thru the night of the @NewYorker's response (via https://news.avclub.com/a-medieval-scholar-schools-the-new-yorker-about-the-bla-1844419326) to @MedievalRobots's critique. If by "facts," the NYer means accurate quotation of Boccaccio & Dr Pomata, one can confirm the former & assume the latter. And it is a "fact" that ...
Medieval scholar schools the New Yorker on the Black Death

The New Yorker learned firsthand earlier this week that you don't fuck around with #MedievalTwitter.

https://news.avclub.com/a-medieval-scholar-schools-the-new-yorker-about-the-bla-1844419326
.. the 14thC chronicler, Gabriele de Mussis, told the stories he did about the siege of Caffa. But what stories we choose to believe & retell now is a measure of our skill as historians. de Mussis has been discredited. So why continue to tell that story? Why privilege such ...
... fictions that defy biology & common sense, when we have a rich body of new interdisciplinary analyses that have produced such compelling new understandings of the epidemiology of the Black Death, its cultural & economic impacts? @NewYorker may stand by its story. I'll pass.
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