But some see it as a stifling example of academic orthodoxy.

According to the academic orthodoxy, this local influence is a relatively recent political phenomenon.

Though Schliemann himself was privately attracted to this idea, he was perhaps reluctant to go publicly against the academic orthodoxy, the Phoenician theory.

Every academic orthodoxy creates a counter-orthodoxy.

This is then justified by the latest academic orthodoxy.

Solnit is an exemplar of that perpetually endangered species, the free-ranging public intellectual, bound to no institution or academic orthodoxy.

Inspired by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, he was one of the group known as the Eight, who challenged academic orthodoxy.

He has consistently challenged academic orthodoxies, and been a radical voice in successive debates about the direction of social and cultural history since the 1970s.

But the academic orthodoxy shifted in the wake of the 60's.

To go with this, his 'career' as historian has been as an independent worker, free of the fetters and fashions of academic orthodoxy.