Timeline for How old can references or sources in a thesis be?
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| Apr 7, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | David Richerby | @guifa That's what I figured, but I was waiting for somebody else to say it, since "Scientist guesses what the humanities are like" is probably pretty laughable, too! | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 14:03 | comment | added | user0721090601 | In the humanities it's outright laughable. Besides the fact that often our sources are necessarily quite a bit older (classicists will quote stuff from antiquity, medievalists from the medieval, etc, historians from their period of history), many things we study may only be taken up by someone every few years or decades even, so to even do a cursory review of prior work you're going to be citing old stuff unless you're on a very popular topic. | |
| Apr 6, 2019 at 17:50 | history | answered | David Richerby | CC BY-SA 4.0 |