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.
2019
CB351 .W47 2019eb
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Title
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.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780823285587 (electronic book)
0823285588 (electronic book)
9780823285594 (electronic book)
0823285596 (electronic book)
9780823285570
082328557X
9780823285563
0823285561
0823285588 (electronic book)
9780823285594 (electronic book)
0823285596 (electronic book)
9780823285570
082328557X
9780823285563
0823285561
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number
CB351 .W47 2019eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1117645098
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"-- Provided by publisher
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
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. Guérin
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.
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. Guérin
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.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September, 2021).
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Series
Fordham series in medieval studies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Whose Middle Ages? First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2019
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