[AnAmericanMother]

Oral tradition is exactly what I'm talking about. That's what Sharpe, Niles, and Chase collected. Their work is well known to anybody in the field, it is not oral history.

Sorry, I took my undergraduate degree in history, and I'm VERY familiar with oral tradition work in Britain and the U.S. You were just plain caught out here, and Wikipedia (Wikipedia!) will not save you.

[the808bass]

Sorry, I took my undergraduate degree in history, and I'm VERY familiar with oral tradition work in Britain and the U.S. You were just plain caught out here, and Wikipedia (Wikipedia!) will not save you.

Then you'll be the first to agree that Oral Tradition is not what Catholic Tradition is. And denigrate Wikipedia all you like. It can be right.