Medieval polemicists framed their textual findings as personal divine revelations

Evidence

Ricoldo seems to have discovered this text with the sense of a special revelation made to him personally after a period of excessive religious anxiety; on the other hand, we also get the impression that he expected a revelation, and preferably one more sensational than this. Basically the one he received, or persuaded himself that he had received, is a credit to his good sense. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2160