Inventing the Middle Ages

nummulite posted what is possibly the best sentence I have read in years yesterday:

Not infrequently in the 1980s the French mandarin school of social history flaunted intellectualization like a boulevard weapon of self-promotion and succumbed to dancing the seven veils of post-Marxism on the tables of the Left Bank cafes to court the younger Parisian generation.

--Norman F. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages

Historiography: because you can't make this shit up. (And which Left Bank cafes were they?)

I'm making a tag based on it. I don't even know what I'll use it for, but it's too good to pass up. (Hell, it would make a great book title, even.)