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Dear medieval-religion colleagues,
With the permission of Sophie Oosterwijk, I am forwarding this to you.
Best wishes, George
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George Ferzoco
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:22:06 +0100
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Subject: [MEDIEVAL-RESEARCH-L:1217] Late letter
Dear all,
A student alerted me to a letter of 9 October from Professor Derek Brewer to
The Times that should appeal many (if you had not already spotted it):
'Sir,
The horrible murder of Kenneth Bigley is no occasion for stylistic
quibbling, but your reference to his murderers as "medievalists" (leading
article, October 9) implies a serious misunderstanding of much of our own
historical culture, as well as being an absurd condemnation of a large body
of modern scholars (usually referred to as "medievalists") in many fields.
The use of the word "medieval" itself to signify all that was bad in history
is an intellectual vulgarism.'
With this type of journalism I suppose it is only a matter of time before
this new 'meaning' of the word 'medievalist' makes it into the dictionaries,
leaving all of us wondering what we are supposed to call ourselves instead.
Sophie Oosterwijk
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