Stop that at once. https://twitter.com/TheeCurrentYear/status/886747180463046656 …
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If you study European medieval history, you will be studying mostly white people & Christians. This should not be suspect.
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Neither should you always have to read it as problematic.Assume that readers know that many medieval attitudes were intolerant of difference
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History can't be simply about pointing out how problematic everyone used to be in obscure language according to 20th century theories.
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Modern scholars first took a morally superior attitudes to medieval history - look how primitive & ignorant people were.
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But this gave way to an expectation that we'd take history on its own terms & uncover its complexities & richness, not moralise about it,
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Now, its all going horribly wrong again.
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I feel like you've missed the bigger point in this article.
@JonathanHsy sums it up pretty well...pic.twitter.com/0RGzEJe0W4
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If they did, that's a problem. No evidence given of it. It doesn't justify the claims made about medieval studies that I addressed.
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