{"product_id":"whose-middle-ages-teachable-moments-for-an-ill-used-past-hardcover","title":"Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Albin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMary C. Erler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eThomas O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47279503737081,"sku":"9780823285570","price":145.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TVE4L1JHd3EzL0JaT0dQOHg2WDhZUT09.webp?v=1769022596","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/whose-middle-ages-teachable-moments-for-an-ill-used-past-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}