This Website

This website showcases the research and analysis on varying topics. Each topic included a primary source document from the medieval period, and together the creators of this website worked to dig deeper, learning about the people, geography, surrounding circumstance, and more, teasing apart the factual and fictional information each given source contained. All work has been peer-reviewed prior to publication.

Research Question

The information that has been placed on this site has been carefully gathered by the creators to answer a simple but imperative concern: to what extent does the historical context surrounding the documents further the understanding of which events and circumstances referred to within and surrounding the documents are true, and which have been skewed and or falsified? It is hoped that the information provided to the reader is helpful in deciphering such a question.

The Creators

Alex Morales

Honours Arts and Business.
- Prospective Majors: Anthropology and Sociology
- Contact: anmorale@edu.uwaterloo.ca

Emily Pazuk

Honours Arts and Business.
- Prospective Majors: Economics and History
- Contact: ebpazuk@edu.uwaterloo.ca

Natalie Duncan

Honours Arts.
- Prospective Major: Honours English – Rhetoric, Media, and Professional Communication
- Contact: naduncan@edu.uwaterloo.ca

Tessa Femia-Sebben

Honours Arts.
- Prospective Major: Legal Studies, minor in Human Sciences
- Contact: tafemias@edu.uwaterloo.ca

Tia Rodney

Honours Arts and Business.
- Prospective Major: Speech Communication
- Contact: ttrodney@uwaterloo.ca

The Class

Arts 140: Debunking Alternative Facts in a Post-Truth World at the University of Waterloo. This course focuses on improving information literacy by having students work in groups to separate fact from fiction in a series of primary source medieval documents. The class is guided by Professor Steven Bednarski and Academic librarian Zack MacDonald.