Ševčenko's law
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Ševčenko's law or Ševčenko's law of the dog and the forest is the tendency of historians to repeat the coverage and the work of previous historians, to the disadvantage of general historical coverage. It was enunciated by the Polish-Ukrainian historian, Ihor Ševčenko.
The situation is compared to a dog and a forest. A dog going into a virgin forest picks a tree at random, and urinates against it. Despite the tree having no intrinsic outstanding attraction as an object for urinating against, other dogs subsequently entering the same forest will show a tendency to urinate against the same tree.
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References
- Catherine Cubitt (2004). "3. Images of St Peter: The Clergy and the Religious Life in Anglo-Saxon England". In Paul Cavill (ed.). The Christian tradition in Anglo-Saxon England : approaches to current scholarship and teaching. Suffolk: D.S. Brewer. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-85991-841-1.
- Franklin, Simon, and Shepard, Jonathan, The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, (Longman History of Russia, Harlow, 1996), p. xxi
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