Oh yes, I remember reading that work. It was a fascinating example of how someone competent in their field can go wildly wrong outside of it. Among other things

Oh yes, I remember reading that work. It was a fascinating example of how someone competent in their field can go wildly wrong outside of it. Among other things, asserting that because Renaissance paintings represented various earlier tales in contemporary clothing, that showed that those earlier tales were actually contemporary with the Renaissance. But that is very tangential, because the Annales school of historians as the very opposite of lunatic fringe. Marc Bloch's 'Feudal Society' remains a really fascinating read.