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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rowe, Nina (Editor ), Paul, Nicholas, 1977- (Editor ), O'Donnell, Thomas (Medievalist) (Editor ), Erler, Mary Carpenter (Editor ), Albin, Andrew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mittelalter
Middle Ages.
Civilization, Medieval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Moyen Âge.
Civilisation medievale > Influence.
Civilisation medievale.
Civilization, Medieval > Influence.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / David Perry
  • Stories. The invisible peasantry / Sandy Bardsley
  • The hidden narratives of medieval art / Katherine Anne Wilson
  • Modern intolerance 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
  • 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
  • #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 media / 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.

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