Abstract
An investigation of strategic abuses of genealogy in historiographical critique, the Coda deconstructs animosity latent in historicist criticism, within the context of Medieval Studies, here conceived as a sub-discipline of cultural history. Departing from cultural history’s foundational relationship with the Renaissance as conceived and celebrated as a transition away from the cultural stasis characteristic of the Middle Ages, this essay takes an interest in how the concept of genealogy has been abused in the defense of the health of history’s sustainable continuation as a shared academic enterprise; this complex problem is furthermore evaluated as a mitigating factor in assessments of the relation of Medieval Studies to contemporary sociopolitical concerns, as well as to the continuing evolution of the humanities.
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