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 back int...
| Other Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Fordham series in medieval studies.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780823285570 082328557X 9780823285563 0823285561 |