The Disclosure Record: What This Course Could Not Source

The idea

A course built on a named anchor and named witnesses owes the learner a list of what it could not find in any of them, and this entry is that list. The following names appear in the course only here or as marked disclosures, never taught as facts, because neither the anchor, nor the three witness texts, nor a located primary document carries them: the Star Chamber, Henry VII's conciliar court, whose name the anchor garbles; the Fuggers, the Augsburg bankers of Charles V's election; the putting-out system of rural manufacture; the Sforza, Milan's dukes after the Visconti; Bosworth, the battle of fourteen eighty-five, taught by its year alone; Chaldiran, the battle of fifteen fourteen, taught by its year alone; the Ciompi revolt of Florence; the Casa de Contratacion, Seville's house of trade; the Amsterdam Exchange and the Bank of Amsterdam by name, though the anchor credits the Dutch with the inventions; Sublimis Deus, the bull of fifteen thirty-seven, taught by its year; Sepulveda, Las Casas's opponent at Valladolid; Ivry, Henry IV's battle of fifteen ninety; Ravaillac, his assassin; the Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration by name, taught by the year fifteen eighty-one; the Twelve Years' Truce of sixteen oh nine; Paracelsus; epicycles by name; Phidias; and Montaigne, Bodin and Grotius, for whom the primary route was not completed. Beside them stand the items the course teaches from convention and says so: Kepler's ellipses, Speyer, the missi dominici, the King's Peace, Edington. Every one of these is exam-plausible, and a learner who meets one on the exam should treat it as a name the course chose not to invent a source for. The reason is the course's rule: a fact is voiced only when a source on disk carries it, and the source is named. The rule cost these names; it bought every other claim in five hundred entries its citation.