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Making the medieval relevant : how medieval studies contribute to improving our understanding of the present /
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to addr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
de Gruyter,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Mittelalter (Berlin, Germany). Beihefte ;
Bd. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why should we care about the Middle Ages? : putting the case for the relevance of studying Medieval Europe / Chris Jones, Conor Kostick, and Klaus Oschema
- Science. Providing reliable data? : combining scientific and historical perspectives on flooding events in medieval and early modern Nuremberg (1400-1800) / Tobias Kluge and Maximilian Schuh
- Medieval history, explosive volcanism, and the geoengineering debate / Conor Kostick and Francis Ludlow
- The Middle Ages in the genetics lab / Jörg Feuchter
- Could medieval medicine help the fight against antimicrobial resistance? / Freya Harrison and Erin Connelly
- Education. The contemporary delegitimization of (medieval) history
- and of the traditional university curriculum as a whole / Julien Demade
- Pacific perspectives : why study Europe's Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand? / Chris Jones and Madi Williams
- How to be a time traveller : exploring Venice with a fifteenth-century pilgrimage guide / Laura Grazia Di Stefano. Society. Heaven can tell ... late medieval astrologers as experts
- and what they can teach us about contemporary financial expertise / Klaus Oschema
- Eoin MacNeill's early medieval Ireland : a scholarship for politics or a politics of scholarship? / Elva Johnston
- What's in a word? : naming 'muslims' in medieval Christian Iberi / Hélène Sirantoine
- The enduring power of the cult of relics : an Irish perspective / Niamh Wycherley
- Resilience and society in medieval Southampton : an archaeological approach to anticipatory action, politics and economy / Ben Jervis. Reflections. Studying the Middle Ages : historical food for thought in the present day / Pierre Monnet
- Notes on contributors
- Index.