Diplomatic emendation can only get you so far

The last time I did any serious work on my next book – though the queue of opuscula before that can resume is diminishing now – seems to my horror to have been about five years ago. I can tell you this because it came to an abrupt halt after I’d written my way through quite a complicated justification of trying to get some historical value out of another pretty-obviously forged charter, it being one of the nearly-famous three I’ve published about in which Count-Marquis Bo