Review:
This book is timely in a way that won't get old. It has something for everyone, from professional educators seeking to enliven their classrooms to anyone curious about the origins of popular symbols and phrases. With a plethora of compelling case studies from contemporary culture, religion, art, and politics, there are vital lessons on almost every page. In example after example, the authors show how people shape the Middle Ages to reflect their fears and dreams for themselves and for society. The results range from the amusing to the horrifying, from video games to genocide. Whose Middle Ages? Everyone's, but not everyone's in the same way.--Michelle R. Warren, author of Creole Medievalism: Colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages
Whose Middle Ages? offers an ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism. A valuable teaching resource, Whose Middle Ages? will inspire necessary discussions about the politics of engaging the past in the present, as it also recovers a Middle Ages that is complex, messy, and belongs to us all.--Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of English, Macalester College
This is an important book, filled with brief, accessible essays by a who's who of experts in medieval studies. As a whole, it demonstrates how scholars can open up their field to a wider audience and why those conversations matter, particularly in our own historical moment when history in general - and the medieval past in particular - is weaponized in the service of hate. Whose Middle Ages? should be on every medievalist's bookshelf and on every class' reading list.--Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech
Cross-disciplinary, classroom-ready, and super-timely meditations on medievalisms in our midst, benign and malign, and on medieval self-understanding. Recommended.--David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University of Pennsylvania
About the Author:
Geraldine Heng (Afterword By) Geraldine Heng is Perceval Professor in English and Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies and Women's Studies, at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (Columbia, 2003, 2004, 2012), The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2018), and England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2018). She is also the founder and director of the Global Middle Ages Project (www.globalmiddleages.org). She is currently researching and writing Early Globalisms: The Interconnected World, 500- 1500 CE. Andrew Albin (Edited By) Andrew Albin is Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University and a member of the faculty of Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. Mary C. Erler (Edited By) Mary C. Erler is Distinguished Professor of English at Fordham University and a member of the faculty of Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. Thomas O'Donnell (Edited By) Thomas O'Donnell is Co-Chair, Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies, and a member of the faculty of Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. Nicholas L. Paul (Edited By) Nicholas L. Paul is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University. He received his MPhil in Medieval History and PhD in History from Cambridge University. His previous publications include To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Cornell, 2017) and the coedited collections Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity (Johns Hopkins, 2012), and, with Laura K. Morreale, The French of Outremer: Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean (Fordham, 2018). Nina Rowe (Edited By) Nina Rowe is Associate Professor of Art History and a member of the faculty of Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. David Perry (Introducer) David Perry-Professor of Medieval History at Dominican University from 2006 to 2017-is a columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine and a freelance journalist covering politics, history, education, and disability rights. His scholarly work focuses on Venice, the Crusades, and the Mediterranean world. He is the author of Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (Penn State, 2015).
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