Stop that at once. https://twitter.com/TheeCurrentYear/status/886747180463046656 …
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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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Isn't the lack of diversity evidence in itself? And re the claims I think you've still missed the point... (1)
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Evidence that medievalists avoid critical theory so they can be safe in whiteness, Christianity & misogyny. I assure you I don't.
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I find it int. dishonest to take a hist. figure out of their period's context & judge them by today's standards. It's bordering on slander.
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Some people don't understand linear time. "The times were different" is a valid statement and doesn't mean it would be okay today. Context.
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