The Making of Medieval History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Loud, Graham; Staub, Martial

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards.

A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge.

Medieval history is present in manyforms in our world. Monuments from the Middle Ages or inspired by them are a familiar feature of landscapes across Europe and beyond; the period between the end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe and the Reformation and European expansion is an essential part of our imagination, be it conveyed through literature, the arts, science fiction or even video games; it is also commonly invoked in political debates. Specialists in the field have played a majorrole in shaping modern perceptions of the era. But little is known about the factors that have influenced them and their work.
The essays in this volume provide original insights into the fabric and dissemination of medieval history as a scholarly discipline from the late eighteenth century onwards. The case-studies range from the creation of specific images of the Middle Ages to the ways in which medievalists have dealt with European identity, contributed to making and deconstructing myths and, more specifically, addressed questions relating to land and frontiers as well as to religion.

GRAHAM A. LOUD is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds;MARTIAL STAUB is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.

Contributors: Christine Caldwell Ames, Peter Biller, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Richard Hitchcock, Bernhard Jussen, Joep Leerssen, G.A. Loud, Christian Lübke, Jinty Nelson, Bastian Schlüter, Martial Staub, Ian Wood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782049692
• Artikelnr.: 47843708

Autorenporträt

Graham A. Loud, Martial Staub

Inhaltsangabe

Some Thoughts on the Making of the Middle Ages
Graham A Loud and Martial Staub Why Re
Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea
Janet L Nelson Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian in the Nineteenth Century
Ian Nicholas Wood European Ethnicities and European as an Ethnicity: Does Europe Have Too Much History?
Patrick Geary A Crisis of the Middle Ages? Deconstructing and Constructing European Identities in a Globalised World
Michael Borgolte Barbarossa's Heirs: Nation and Medieval History in nineteenth
and twentieth
century Germany
Bastian Schlütter Once upon a time in Germany: Medievalism, Academic Romanticism, Nationalism
Joep Leerssen Between Ideology and Technology: Depicting Charlemagne in Modern Times
Bernhard Jussen Reflections on the Frontier in Early Medieval Iberia
Richard Hitchcock Germany's Growth to the East: from the Polabian Marches to Germania Slavica
Christian Lübke Distance and Difference: Medieval Inquisition as American History
Christine Ames Mind the Gap: Modern and Medieval 'Religious' Vocabularies
Peter Biller