Senior Thesis pt 1: Proposal

Plurk saw me tableflip about this last week, but I just wrote up a more in-depth (if still very informal) proposal and I'm just going to stick this here and explain again since lolwhat. I had been planning to do my senior thesis on the development of ethnicity in the Italian Renaissance--that was what I researched for much of last year, that was what I presented on in April, and so on. I had made a point to namedrop the Borgias where I could in part because I thought it was relevant and in part just for my own entertainment. I used to get a kick out of slipping in quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in my essays for history classes in high school in much the same way. When I went to talk to my advisor, however, she recommended that I focus my paper on the experiences of that family in particular.As we continued to talk, she asked how I had gotten interested in them and got into a conversation about the various different pieces of historical fiction on them, at which point she told me it would be best if I could manage to tie in a discussion of how and why Souryo Fuyumi looks at ethnicity in Cesare.

And that is how I was given the assignment of writing forty pages on a family that I was only planning on mentioning in the finished work as an aside and a manga that I would have been mortified to mention at all.

( what is this madness )