Whose Middle Ages? : Teachable moments for an ill-used past

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction -- The Invisible Peasantry -- The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art -- Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades -- Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies -- Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? -- How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction -- The Invisible Peasantry -- The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art -- Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades -- Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies -- Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? -- How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? -- The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance -- Introduction -- Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an -- The Nazi Middle Ages -- What Would Benedict Do? -- No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time -- Ivory and the Ties That Bind -- Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art -- England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” -- Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? -- Introduction -- Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns -- Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin -- “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness -- Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media -- Real Men of the Viking Age -- #DeusVult -- Own Your Heresy -- Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire -- Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—By Genre -- Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching— by Course Theme -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors Ausführliche Beschreibung