{"product_id":"whose-middle-ages-teachable-moments-for-an-ill-used-past-9780823285563","title":"Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeraldine Heng (Afterword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy \u003c\/i\u003e(Columbia, 2003, 2004, 2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2018), and \u003ci\u003eEngland and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge, 2018). She is also the founder and director of the Global Middle Ages Project (www.globalmiddleages.org). She is currently researching and writing \u003ci\u003eEarly Globalisms: The Interconnected World, 500- 1500 CE\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Albin (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary C. Erler (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas O'Donnell (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas L. Paul (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTo Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003e(Cornell, 2017) and the coedited collections \u003ci\u003eRemembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(Johns Hopkins, 2012), and, with Laura K. Morreale, \u003ci\u003eThe French of Outremer: Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean\u003c\/i\u003e (Fordham, 2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina Rowe (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nina Rowe is Associate Professor of Art History and a member of the faculty of Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Perry (Introducer) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David Perry--Professor of Medieval History at Dominican University from 2006 to 2017--is a columnist for \u003ci\u003ePacific Standard Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and a freelance journalist covering politics, history, education, and disability rights. His scholarly work focuses on Venice, the Crusades, and the Mediterranean world. 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