Gee, if no qualified researcher has given the Crusader papers any serious attention over the 800 years they've been around, how the hell do we know what we think about the Crusades is at all correct?
The opening anecdote of that article is so vague as to be meaningless. Which Crusades scholars? Which conference? The "Crusades papers" at which institution in Milan?
Every summer, scholars from around the world hole up in European libraries to study primary sources from the Middle Ages. I don't think the writer of that article intends to imply that no one has looked at any of the primary sources for the Crusades, only that no one has checked out whatever's been deposited at Milan. "New" stuff from the Middle Ages is edited and published all the time, but there's only so much manpower; ars longa, vita brevis and all that.
The opening anecdote of that article is so vague as to be meaningless. Which Crusades scholars? Which conference? The "Crusades papers" at which institution in Milan?
ReplyDeleteEvery summer, scholars from around the world hole up in European libraries to study primary sources from the Middle Ages. I don't think the writer of that article intends to imply that no one has looked at any of the primary sources for the Crusades, only that no one has checked out whatever's been deposited at Milan. "New" stuff from the Middle Ages is edited and published all the time, but there's only so much manpower; ars longa, vita brevis and all that.