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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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
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Whose Middle Ages?
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1111653721
Responsibility statement
Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, editors ; introduction by David Perry ; afterword by Geraldine Heng
Series statement
Fordham series in medieval studies
Sub title
teachable moments for an ill-used past
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
Table Of 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