They hated Barbara Erenreich (A Distant Mirror) and the author (whose name I don´t remember) who wrote A Midwife´s Tale, a brilliant piece of research into women´s lives in the early US because these writers were not part of the annointed elite. Furthermore - gasp! - these writers wrote books that were interesting and were actually bought by somebody other than the university libraries that have to purchase this kind of thing.
Sorry - I meant Barbara Tuchman!
I have A Distan Mirror. Good book, and one that kind of opens up the Middle Ages a bit.