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Format: 308 Seiten , Illustrationen

Edition: First Edition

ISBN: 9780823285563

Series Statement: Fordham series in medieval studies

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Whose Middle Ages? New York : Fordham University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780823285594

Language: English

Keywords: Mittelalter ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Mediävistik ; Mittelalter ; Rezeption ; Einführung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.) : , 35

ISBN: 9780823285594

Series Statement: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Introduction -- , The Invisible Peasantry -- , The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art -- , Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades -- , Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies -- , Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? -- , How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? -- , The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance -- , Introduction -- , Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an -- , The Nazi Middle Ages -- , What Would Benedict Do? -- , No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time -- , Ivory and the Ties That Bind -- , Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art -- , England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” -- , Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? -- , Introduction -- , Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns -- , Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin -- , “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness -- , Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media -- , Real Men of the Viking Age -- , #DeusVult -- , Own Your Heresy -- , Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire -- , Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—By Genre -- , Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching— by Course Theme -- , List of Contributors -- , About the Editors , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823285594

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285594

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (308 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Karte.

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 978-0-8232-8559-4

Series Statement: Fordham series in medieval studies

Content: "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

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8232-8557-0

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-8232-8556-3

Language: English

Keywords: Mittelalter ; Rezeption ; Mediävistik

DOI: 10.1515/9780823285594

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (192 pages) ; , illustrations, maps.

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 0-8232-8558-8 , 0-8232-8559-6

Series Statement: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Introduction -- , The Invisible Peasantry -- , The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art -- , Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades -- , Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies -- , Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? -- , How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? -- , The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance -- , Introduction -- , Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an -- , The Nazi Middle Ages -- , What Would Benedict Do? -- , No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time -- , Ivory and the Ties That Bind -- , Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art -- , England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” -- , Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? -- , Introduction -- , Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns -- , Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin -- , “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness -- , Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media -- , Real Men of the Viking Age -- , #DeusVult -- , Own Your Heresy -- , Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire -- , Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—By Genre -- , Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching— by Course Theme -- , List of Contributors -- , About the Editors

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8232-8556-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8232-8557-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823285594