Sources, Forgeries, and Discoveries (Dr Felix Waldmann)

How do intellectual historians approach sources? What can a source change about existing narratives in the history of political thought? And why is it so important for intellectual historians to know who the author of a given source is? Felix Waldmann, Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College Cambridge, talked to us about manuscripts, forgeries, discoveries and his research on eighteenth century political thought and the Enlightenment in Italy.