The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian - Paperbackby Leah Shopkow (Author) While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Foug? res and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians