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: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Fordham University Press 2019
Edition:First edition
Series:Fordham series in medieval studies
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:308 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780823285563
9780823285570

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