{"product_id":"whose-middle-ages-teachable-moments-for-an-ill-used-past-hardback-9780823285570","title":"Whose Middle Ages?; Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Hardback) 9780823285570","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhose Middle Ages?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTeachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Albin (Edited by), Mary C. Erler (Edited by), Nicholas L. Paul (Edited by), Nina Rowe (Edited by), David M. Perry (Introduction by), Geraldine Heng (Afterword by), Sandy Bardsley (Contributions by), Adam Bishop (Contributions by), Marian Bleeke (Contributions by), Will Cerbone (Contributions by), William Diebold (Contributions by), Fred Donner (Contributions by), Sarah Guérin (Contributions by), J. Patrick Hornbeck II (Contributions by), Lauren Mancia (Contributions by), Stephennie Mulder (Contributions by), W. Mark Ormrod (Contributions by), Pamela Patton (Contributions by), Nicholas L. Paul (Contributions by), Andrew Reeves (Contributions by), Ryan Szpiech (Contributions by), Magda Teter (Contributions by), Elizabeth Tyler (Contributions by), Cord Whitaker (Contributions by), Maggie Williams (Contributions by), Katherine Wilson (Contributions by), Helen Young (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285570\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 35\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.458 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhose Middle Ages? \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhose Middle Ages?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWhose Middle Ages?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Perry\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I – Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Invisible Peasantry\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSandy Bardsley\u003c\/i\u003e   14\u003cbr\u003e The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine Anne Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e   23\u003cbr\u003e Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas L. Paul\u003c\/i\u003e   34\u003cbr\u003e Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagda Teter\u003c\/i\u003e   44\u003cbr\u003e Who's Afraid of Shari'a Law?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFred M. Donner\u003c\/i\u003e   58\u003cbr\u003e How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eW. Mark Ormrod\u003c\/i\u003e   69\u003cbr\u003e The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCord J. Whitaker\u003c\/i\u003e   80\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II – Origins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRyan Szpiech \u003c\/i\u003e  94\u003cbr\u003e The Nazi Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam J. Diebold\u003c\/i\u003e   104\u003cbr\u003e What Would Benedict Do?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLauren Mancia \u003c\/i\u003e  116\u003cbr\u003e No, People in the Middle East Haven't Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephennie Mulder \u003c\/i\u003e  127\u003cbr\u003e Ivory and the Ties That Bind\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah M. Guérin\u003c\/i\u003e   140\u003cbr\u003e Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePamela A. Patton\u003c\/i\u003e   154\u003cbr\u003e England Between Empire and Nation in \"The Battle of Brunanburh\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth M. Tyler\u003c\/i\u003e   166\u003cbr\u003e Whose Spain Is It, Anyway?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid A. Wacks\u003c\/i\u003e   181\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III – #Hashtags\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarian Bleeke \u003c\/i\u003e  196\u003cbr\u003e Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Reeves\u003c\/i\u003e   208\u003cbr\u003e \"Celtic\" Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaggie M. Williams \u003c\/i\u003e  220\u003cbr\u003e Whitewashing the \"Real\" Middle Ages in Popular Media\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Young\u003c\/i\u003e   233\u003cbr\u003e Real Men of the Viking Age\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWill Cerbone\u003c\/i\u003e   243\u003cbr\u003e #DeusVult\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam M. Bishop \u003c\/i\u003e  256\u003cbr\u003e Own Your Heresy\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. 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