Whose Middle Ages? : teachable moments for an ill-used past / Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, editors ; introduction by David Perry ; afterword by Geraldine Heng.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

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    Series
    Fordham series in medieval studies [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "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"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction / David Perry
    • Part I. Stories
    • The invisible peasantry / Sandy Bardsley
    • The hidden narratives of medieval art / Katherine Anne Wilson
    • Modern intolerances and the medieval Crusades / Nicholas L. Paul
    • Blood libel, a lie and its legacies / Magda Teter
    • Who's afraid of Shari'a law / Fred M. Donner
    • How do we find out about immigrants in later medieval England? / W. Mark Ormrod
    • The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance / Cord J. Whitaker
    • Part II. Origins
    • Three ways of misreading Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an / Ryan Szpiech
    • The Nazi Middle Ages / William J. Diebold
    • What would Benedict do? / Lauren Mancia
    • No, people in the Middle East haven't been fighting since the beginning of time / Stephennie Mulder
    • Ivory and the ties that bind / Sarah M. Guerin
    • Blackness, whiteness, and the idea of race in medieval European art / Pamela A. Patton
    • England between empire and nation in "The battle of Brunanburh" / Elizabeth M. Tyler
    • Whose Spain is it, anyway? / David A. Wacks
    • Part III. #Hashtags
    • Modern knights, medieval snails, and naughty nuns / Marian Bleeke
    • Charting sexuality and stopping sin / Andrew Reeves
    • "Celtic" crosses and the myth of whiteness / Maggie M. Williams
    • Whitewashing the "real" Middle Ages in popular culture / Helen Young
    • Real men of the Viking age / Will Cerbone
    • #DeusVult / Adam M. Bishop
    • Own your heresy / J. Patrick Hornbeck II
    • Afterword: medievalists and the education of desire / Geraldine Heng
    • Appendix I: possibilities for teaching by genre
    • Appendix II: possibilities for teaching by course theme.
    ISBN
    • 9780823285570 (hardcover)
    • 082328557X (hardcover)
    • 9780823285563 (paperback)
    • 0823285561 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2019032151
    OCLC
    1111653721
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