[allmendream]

And makes it easier for crackpots to believe whatever they want despite any and all evidence! King James was not just a Nancy, he was a homosexual buried beside two of his lovers.

[muawiyah]

There are few really sound pieces of evidence about anything left over from the 16th and 17th centuries. Treaties were usually produced in more than one language, copies made, and they were passed around. We actually have documents we can match up against each other.

The late 15th and early 16th were particularly difficult ~ Latin had a fixed spelling but maybe a dozen versions of Gallo were spoken in France and in the English court, and lord only knows what they spoke in Scotland in those days ~ or how they spelled it.

Normal fistfighting hard drinking gentlemen began letters to each other with "My dearest" and "My love" ~ with totally different meanings than you can imagine today.