The Careful Historian
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Don\'t leave your family\'s dirty laundry lying around Dr. Nicholas Paul \\u2013 although unless your lineage goes back to the middle ages, chances are he\'s not interested.\\xa0 Paul studies medieval noble families, and he does so by reading the official histories those families recorded about themselves.\\xa0 But it\'s tough to say what those stories can really tell us about a world so many centuries away \\u2013 and tougher still to draw comparisons to families then and now.\\xa0 "The value is in the difference," says Paul.
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