I have been reading a number of historians talking shit bout each other in the footnotes of their essays for I don't know how long.
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It's gone past useful criticism and has now descended into what I can only describe as the "Mean Girls of Medieval History"
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Except these people are not girls. They are grown men who are really angry about their slightly different interpretations on a thing.
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Actually I think I have seen children and teens resolve differences better than these guys.
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With that being said, there are a few historians out there that I'd like to have a scathing critique of in my own writing make it to them.
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I wrote a review of this one guy's book last spring, and it was the stupidest progressivist White Man's medieval history I've ever read.
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I'm pretty tempted to email it to him, to be honest. Or at least his students. I know where you work, sir. And your book sucks.
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Seems vindictive, but when you have a dude saying Columbus is the most famous Late Medieval individual, I got an infinite # of bones to pick
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He also said that POC did not exist in medieval europe despite their existence in art.
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@civilwarbore he said that their images were racial caricatures. which...no. I want to forward him to http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com .
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