Inventing The Middle Ages

Author : Norman Cantor
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718897284

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The Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights, lords and ladies. In his era-defining work, Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor shows that these presuppositions are in fact constructs of the twentieth century. Through close study of the lives and works of twenty of the twentieth century's most prominent medievalists, Cantor examines how the genesis of this fantasy arose in the scholars' spiritual and emotional outlooks, which influenced their portrayals of the Middle Ages. In the course of this vigorous scrutiny of their scholarship, he navigates the strong personalities and creative minds involved with deft skill. Written with both students and the general public in mind, Inventing the Middle Ages provided an alternative framework for the teaching of the humanities. Revealing the interconnection between medieval civilisation, the culture of the twentieth century and our own assumptions, Cantor provides a unique standpoint both forwards and backwards. As lively and engaging today as when it was first published in 1991, his analysis offers readers the core essentials of the subject in an entertaining and humorous fashion.

Author : Norman Cantor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718896690

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Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor Pdf

The Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights, lords and ladies. In his era-defining work, Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor shows that these presuppositions are in fact constructs of the twentieth century. Through close study of the lives and works of twenty of the twentieth century’s most prominent medievalists, Cantor examines how the genesis of this fantasy arose in the scholars’ spiritual and emotional outlooks, which influenced their portrayals of the Middle Ages. In the course of this vigorous scrutiny of their scholarship, he navigates the strong personalities and creative minds involved with deft skill. Written with both students and the general public in mind, Inventing the Middle Ages provided an alternative framework for the teaching of the humanities. Revealing the interconnection between medieval civilisation, the culture of the twentieth century and our own assumptions, Cantor provides a unique standpoint both forwards and backwards. As lively and engaging today as when it was first published in 1991, his analysis offers readers the core essentials of the subject in an entertaining and humorous fashion.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476797748

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In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : John Howe,Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 081302479X

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Inventing Medieval Landscapes by John Howe,Michael Wolfe Pdf

The eleven essays in this volume offer diverse approaches to very different landscapes. Yet they agree in viewing medieval western European landscape as artifact, as territiry constructed by medieval people on several interrelated levels. By helping to articulate how places came to be managed, created, and imagined, they offer their readers a much better apprecitaion of what might be called a "deep ecology" of the Middle Ages. --introd.

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400828579

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On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State by Joseph R. Strayer Pdf

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119990666

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Inventing Norman Cantor by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

Author : Cary J. Nedermann,Bettina Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443500

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Inventing Modernity in Medieval European Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550 by Cary J. Nedermann,Bettina Koch Pdf

One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of Modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages. This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called medieval/modern divide. The contributors include a wide array of eminent international scholars from the fields of History, Theology, Philosophy, and Political Science, all of whom explore how medieval ideas framed and shaped the thought of later centuries. This sometimes involved the evolution of intellectual principles associated with the definition and imposition of religious orthodoxy. Also addressed is the Great Schism in the Roman Church that set into question the foundations of ecclesiology. In the same era, philosophical and theoretical innovations reexamined conventional beliefs about metaphysics, epistemology and political life, perhaps best encapsulated by the fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian and political theorist Nicholas of Cusa.

Author : Michael R. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441146038

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Inventing Eleanor by Michael R. Evans Pdf

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished--and even obscured--by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-feminist defender of women's rights. Inventing Eleanor interrogates the myths that have grown up around the figure of Eleanor of Aquitaine and investigates how and why historians and artists have invented an Eleanor who is very different from the 12th-century queen. The book first considers the medieval primary sources and then proceeds to trace the post-medieval development of the image of Eleanor, from demonic queen to feminist icon, in historiography and the broader culture.

Author : Tison Pugh,Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136265402

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Medievalisms by Tison Pugh,Angela Jane Weisl Pdf

From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores: The influence of medieval cultural concepts on literature and film, including key authors such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Mark Twain The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as Dante, King Arthur, and Robin Hood The influence of the medieval on such varied disciplines such as politics, music, children’s literature, and art. Contemporary efforts to relive the Middle Ages. Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the medieval period through to the twenty-first century.

Author : Andrew Albin,Mary C. Erler,Thomas O'Donnell,Nicholas L. Paul,Nina Rowe
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823285594

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Whose Middle Ages? by Andrew Albin,Mary C. Erler,Thomas O'Donnell,Nicholas L. Paul,Nina Rowe Pdf

Whose Middle Ages? is 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. Whose Middle Ages? 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. Each 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, 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.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062444608

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Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

''No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader.'' --Booklist A revised and expanded edition of Norman Cantor's splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages, containing more than 30 percent new material from the original edition.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061738821

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Alexander the Great by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries combined with the most recent psychological and cultural studies to show Alexander as he was -- a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. He describes Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his father, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal involvement with his mother, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, the Greek and Persian worlds, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt. More than a biography, Norman Cantor's Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time.

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611683929

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Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary Pdf

Language and ideology in the scholarship of the late Middle Ages

Author : Norman F. Cantor,Richard I. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001675690H

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How to Study History by Norman F. Cantor,Richard I. Schneider Pdf

"How to history introduces undergraduates to all aspects of history from the introductory to the advanced level. The volume is intended primarily for students in basic survey courses, but it will prove invaluable for history majors, potential graduate students, or anyone enrolled in a history course. Here, for the first time is a book that will serve as a practical guide to the nature and requirements of the discipline. Included is sound advice on the use of primary and secondary sources; the uses of the library and the taking of notes for research; the writing of examinations, book reviews, essays, and papers; the use of good English and style in historical writing; and the preparation of an undergraduate history program". - Publisher.