Talk:Tom Shippey

"a British scholar of medievalism"?
Isn't this just "a British medievalist"? "scholar of medievalism" sounds like he studies contemporary scholarship of the middle ages; this is, of course, true, but hardly seems worth noting in the article, much less the lead sentence, since it's assumed that everyone we classify as a scholar will have a grasp on what other scholars in the same field are doing. More likely, though, it's just awkward wording and isn't meant to mean what I am reading it as meaning. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 01:19, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * No, for Shippey, unlike for many of his colleagues, this is appropriate even in first position. "Medievalism" isn't really (or just) "contemporary scholarship"; rather, it is a kind of application of things considered to be "medieval". I admit that the lead of the Medievalism article isn't entirely clear. Celticism is comparable. Drmies (talk) 01:24, 4 September 2017 (UTC)