Whose Middle Ages? - (Fordham Medieval Studies) by Andrew Albin & Mary C Erler & Thomas O'Donnell & Nicholas L Paul & Nina Rowe (Paperback)

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays that examine how the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present.

This book is ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level and contains 22 essays that take up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present.

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.

The book attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.

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.

This book is a valuable teaching resource that will inspire necessary discussions about the politics of engaging the past in the present, and it recovers a Middle Ages that is complex, messy, and belongs to us all.