History is fantastic, particularly history via primary sources. A truth of some sort is sitting in plain text waiting to be read, but when one reads it an infinite number of questions pop up. Namely: is this crap? Probably. There's all this truth to found. There are definitely a lot more lies than there are truths, but what the fuck? It's all interesting. I mean, why were they lying? What posessed this jackass in LXIV's court to lie? It was probably a woman.