Medium Aevum and the Middle Age
Title | Medium Aevum and the Middle Age PDF eBook |
Author | George Stuart Gordon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | English language |
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Medium Aevum and the Middle Age
Title | Medium Aevum and the Middle Age PDF eBook |
Author | George Gordon |
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Pages | 44 |
Release | 1962 |
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Medium Aevum and the Middle Age, Etc
Title | Medium Aevum and the Middle Age, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | George Stuart Gordon |
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Pages | 46 |
Release | 1925 |
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Medium Aevum and the Middle Age
Title | Medium Aevum and the Middle Age PDF eBook |
Author | George Gordon (Geistlicher, Naturforscher, Paläontologe, Grossbritannien) |
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Release | 1925 |
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Toward a Global Middle Ages
Title | Toward a Global Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan C. Keene |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 160606598X |
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-speaking World
Title | The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-speaking World PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-Françoise Alamichel |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780859915083 |
Studies of the influence of the middle ages on aspects of European and American life and culture from 16c to the present day.
Whose Middle Ages?
Title | Whose Middle Ages? PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Albin |
Publisher | Fordham University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0823285596 |
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. Whose Middle Ages? 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. 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, Whose Middle Ages? 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.