Also important: we can reject Theory in produced scholarship, while allowing it to inform q's we ask of sources & choices when teaching
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @ericweiskott and
If you are doing any scholarship, you are doing theory, even if the theory is basically I am doing manuscript analysis. So what is your pt?
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @ericweiskott and
In the sense that I can be a feminist or Marxist, and an historian, & yet not be a feminist historian or Marxist historian.
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @dorothyk98 and
Sounds like classic cognitive dissonance. An avid belief in supposedly objective historicism is a ruse. You think you can draw lines -- NO.
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Replying to @punctum_books @ADMedievalist and
Your deep psychic life is woven into everything you do, period. There is no approach to our field that is not always theoretical. PERIOD.
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Replying to @punctum_books @ADMedievalist and
Pretending scholarly work & personal history + personal psychic life are somehow separated is one of the great tragedies of scholarly life.
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Replying to @punctum_books @dorothyk98 and
Um, I really think we are talking about different things. I AGREE that the things that make us who we are are embedded in our scholarship
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I am not talking about that. If you choose a methodology, approach, etc. it is based in theory and it has histories.
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