Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823285561
• ISBN13: 9780823285563
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"