Medievalists online are annoying! But listen tumblr-wannabe username guy, everyone is! The very idea of the Middle Ages was coined in the 17th c by Protestants shitting on Catholics. Dark Ages comes from Petrarch being up his own ass about poetry
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We don’t have to in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five just kind of accept their characterizations There’s actual expertise medievalists have!
aug 28, 2025, 11:59 am • 35 0 • view
This does I think get to the heart of it though I think in that there’s a strain of UK “intellectual” that think American medievalists specifically aren’t real scholars
aug 28, 2025, 12:04 pm • 37 0 • view
so apparently there's this coming out soon 🫠 www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Domina...
aug 28, 2025, 1:23 pm • 5 0 • view
The eternal warfare between historians and archeologists?
aug 28, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
is her first name Professor?
aug 28, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Um, it's generally bad form to dig on people, particularly women, who use their titles.
aug 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, I don't because I know how empty a PhD is, but others struggle to get any kind of respect for their work.
aug 28, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
There's that. But what I think is going on here is what I call the "some kind of expert" phenomenon. People read a couple of books, and they think that makes them some kind of expert.
aug 28, 2025, 12:10 pm • 4 0 • view
True but I’m also thinking of some offline things!
aug 28, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Within the actual profession, for sure. But hopefully those British academics aren't also spending time being reply-guys online. But I could be wrong.
aug 28, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a strain of UK intellectual who thinks that UK intellectuals who did not go to Oxford or Cambridge aren’t real scholars. So welcome to our fucking world ProfGabriele.
aug 28, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the one. An Englishman kept going on about how strange he found it that I studied medieval England. He studied the Ottoman Empire. That, of course, was not strange.
aug 28, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
it's a lot worse now for some reason (likely old twitter) and it's just so tedious
aug 28, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Those are wild caught idiots
aug 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I particularly appreciated the use of the term 'dark ages deniers'. Used rhetorically to align his opponents with COVID deniers', climate change deniers etc (= anti science) while cleverly obviating the need for evidence.
aug 28, 2025, 12:05 pm • 4 0 • view