A specimen

This is the abstract of an academic article about a mediaeval religious movement. It may seem unchivalrous to give the author's name and the title, but if I had not it would still have been extremely easy to discover her via Google. I rather want to underline that there is no exceptional folly or wickedness about this particular person or her work; rather, that the central badness of it is nothing more than average, symptomatic of a wholly poisonous way of approaching history and other discipline that unfortunately prevails and has prevailed for a very long time.( Read more... )