American History to be re writen(Catholics here First )

[lsusportsfan]

One of my Pet Peeves is that AMerican History totally ignores it seems Catholic History. As a person from Louisiana this comes real apparent.

But now -

Excerpts
The discovery of America: the revolutionary claims of a dead historian

Dr Alwyn Ruddock, a former reader in history at the University of London, was the world expert on John Cabot’s discovery voyages from Bristol to North America (1496-98). What she was said to have found out about these voyages looked set to re-write the history of the European discovery of America. Yet, when Dr Ruddock died in December 2005, having spent four decades researching this topic, she ordered the destruction of all her research.

In an article published today in Historical Research, Alwyn Ruddock’s extraordinary claims are explored by Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol.
In Spring 2006, all Dr Ruddock’s research material was destroyed, in line with the instructions in her will. However, her correspondence with her intended publisher, the University of Exeter Press, survived. Using this correspondence Dr Jones has investigated the research that Dr Ruddock had worked on, and kept secret, for so many years.

“To describe Alwyn Ruddock’s claims as revolutionary,” said Dr Jones, “is not an exaggeration.” Her apparent findings include information about how John** Cabot persuaded Henry VII to support his voyages and why the explorer was able to win the backing of an influential Italian cleric: Fr. Giovanni Antonio de Carbonariis, an Augustinian friar who was also in charge of collecting the Pope’s taxes in England. **

bristol.ac.uk/news/2007/5333.html

By the way go to the link and download the article that is mentioned. Very interesting

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[Dale_M]

Dr. Ruddock was certainly looking at some interesting ideas. I have no idea if she was on to something significant or not. It could be said, as with rumored Viking visits to North America, that the lack of followthrough renders Cabot’s and Fr. Giovanni Antonio’s activities unimportant.

Oh, BTW, the article written by Dr. Jones about Dr. Ruddock will only be downloadable for one week, so if folks come to this thread late, they may be out of luck!

 

[Caesar]

Very interesting to be sure.

Now if only the mainstream academics would seriously investigate the travels of St. Brendan the Navigator and prove that North America was first discovered by an Irish Catholic monk…