Condescention having been mentioned, I would like to say that my outrage
against intellectual shallowness and lack of precise thinking displayed in
this list and much pseudo-historicist Renaissance scholarship of the past
two decades was increased when Professor Prescott's promise to include a
reference to Stephen Whitworth's article on Barnfield, if she could, in the
forthcoming volume edited by Klawitter and Borris made me realize the
editors had not mentioned the article, of which they were well aware, to
their contributors, even though it is the most recent, and still one of the
only pieces devoted to Barnfield.
This is not only condescension, not only yet another symptom of
anti-intellectualism in Renaissance studies, but a violation of
professional ethics worthy of being reported to the MLA and other
professional organizations. I would expect intellectually responsible
members of this list, certainly those contributing to the Klawitter/Borris
volume who had not been informed of the article, to denounce this behaviour.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
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