Of course fundamentalists, catholic or otherwise, are the easiest of targets. Doesn’t take much brainpower to score wins over them. But if you look at a Catholic scholar like Raymond Brown, who is universally respected by Bart and most other secular biblical scholars, it’s a harder row to hoe. When I read Brown, I was amazed at how liberal Catholic orthodoxy really is.
This is not what was asked for but while we’re on the subject of Medievalism here are two older cultural studies that as far I as know have not been surpassed. In their diverse ways they deal with the transition from the medieval world to the Renaissance and hence the beginnings of the modern world. They both do a good job of describing the way medievals thought.
The Discarded Image by C S Lewis (Yes that C S Lewis. Best known for his Christian apologetics and literary fantasies, he spent his career as an Oxford don and this was his specialty.)
The Elizabethan World Picture by E M W Tillyard. (This is mainly about the age of Shakespeare and valuable for that but in describing his age she must deal with what came before.)
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