Whose Middle Ages?

Description:

"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"--

subjects: Civilization, medieval,  Middle ages,  Medieval Civilization,  Influence,  Popular culture,  Medieval,  Fascism & totalitarianism,  Essays,  Social sciences -> social sciences -> popular culture,  Social sciences -> history -> european history,  Cs.soc_sci.poli_sci.gen_polit_sc,  Social sciences -> history -> general