Guest, history moves on as more information becomes available.
In history as in science and every knowledge base, the views of those involved are refined and evolve with ever greater knowledge.

Musket, it is blatantly not true that I have been "selective"
I have produced actual, in context quotes from a large number of historians, and none of us have been able to find one that disagrees.
We have all found nothing else I could select from!

Steve, Keith. I don't believe or not believe either modern or dead historians,

Why ever not? Why would a non historian refuse to believe an historian.
You are like a religious fundamentalist refusing to believe geologists paleontologists and cosmologists.

though I do recognise that the modern chappies, though undoubtedly wiser than those of old (he said ironically :-) ), are one more step removed from their sources.

So you believe that every day we know less about history?!
You do not believe that historians' researches add to our knowledge at all?!