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

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Weitere Verfasser: Albin, Andrew (HerausgeberIn), Erler, Mary Carpenter 1937- (HerausgeberIn), O'Donnell, Thomas ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Paul, Nicholas 1977- (HerausgeberIn), Rowe, Nina (HerausgeberIn), Heng, Geraldine 1953- (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Fordham series in medieval studies
Schlagworte:
Europe
alt-right
crusades
globalism
medievalism
middle ages
nation-state
race
white supremacy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Civilization, Medieval > Influence
Civilization, Medieval
Middle Ages
Mediävistik
Rezeption
Mittelalter
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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.Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the on-screen image of a purely white European populace defended from actors of color by Internet trolls. This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.Each essay uses its author’s academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools, bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the far right’s errors of fact and interpretation but also to its assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the acquisition of knowledge
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (308 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780823285594
DOI:10.1515/9780823285594

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