Whose Middle Ages?: teachable moments for an ill-used past

"Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted ba...

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Fordham series in medieval studies
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Zusammenfassung:"Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths"--
Beschreibung:308 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780823285563
9780823285570

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