Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past
Edición de la obra Whose Middle Ages?
| Autor | Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe |
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| Editorial | Fordham University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 316 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780823285587 |
| Número de Cutter | A335w |
"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"--