Whose Middle Ages? : : Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past / / ed. by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe.

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• HerausgeberIn: Albin, Andrew,; Erler, Mary C.,; O'Donnell, Thomas,; Paul, Nicholas L.,; Rowe, Nina,
• MitwirkendeR: Bardsley, Sandy,; Bishop, Adam M.,; Bleeke, Marian,; Cerbone, Will,; Diebold, William J.,; Donner, Fred M.,; Guérin, Sarah M.,; Heng, Geraldine,; Hornbeck, J. Patrick,; Mancia, Lauren,; Mulder, Stephennie,; Ormrod, W. Mark,; Patton, Pamela A.,; Paul, Nicholas L.,; Perry, David,; Reeves, Andrew,; Szpiech, Ryan,; Teter, Magda,; Tyler, Elizabeth M.,; Wacks, David A.,; Whitaker, Cord J.,; Williams, Maggie M.,; Wilson, Katherine Anne,; Young, Helen,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bardsley, Sandy.; Bishop, Adam.; Bleeke, Marian.; Cerbone, Will.; Diebold, William.; Donner, Fred.; Guérin, Sarah.; Heng, Geraldine.; II, J. Patrick Hornbeck.; Mancia, Lauren.; Mulder, Stephennie.; Ormrod, W. Mark.; Patton, Pamela.; Paul, Nicholas L.; Perry, David.; Reeves, Andrew.; Szpiech, Ryan.; Teter, Magda.; Tyler, Elizabeth.; Wacks, David.; Whitaker, Cord.; Williams, Maggie.; Wilson, Katherine.; Young, Helen.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 35

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I - Stories
• Introduction
• The Invisible Peasantry
• The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art
• Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades
• Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies
• Who's Afraid of Shari'a Law?
• How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England?
• The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance
• Part II - Origins
• Introduction
• Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
• The Nazi Middle Ages
• What Would Benedict Do?
• No, People in the Middle East Haven't Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time
• Ivory and the Ties That Bind
• Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art
• England Between Empire and Nation in "The Battle of Brunanburh"
• Whose Spain Is It, Anyway?
• Part III - #Hashtags
• Introduction
• Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns
• Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin
• "Celtic" Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness
• Whitewashing the "Real" Middle Ages in Popular Media
• Real Men of the Viking Age
• #DeusVult
• Own Your Heresy
• Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire
• Appendixes
• Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching-By Genre
• Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching- by Course Theme
• List of Contributors
• About the Editors