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9780203932421

Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203932421

  • ISBN10:

    0203932420

  • Copyright: 2007-12-24
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Church
Was the Medieval Church Corrupt?
Papal Infallibility
"The Age of Faith": Everyone in the Middle Ages Believed in God
Everyone was an Orthodox, Educated Roman Catholic
The Myth of The Virgin Nun
The Medieval Popess
Medieval Monks: Funnier than You Thought
Medieval Attitudes Toward Muslims And Jews
War and the State
The Crusades: Eschatological Lemmings, Younger Sons, Papal Hegemony and Colonialism
The Myth of the Mounted Knight
The Power of Medieval Kings
Science
The Myth Of The Flat Earth
The Medieval Sense of Self
The Middle Ages Were a Superstitious Time
The Age Before Reason
Rehabilitating Medieval Medicine
Medical Misconceptions
The Arts
Medieval Cuisine: Hog's Swill or Culinary Art?
What Did Medieval People Eat?
Medieval Drama
Shakespeare Did not Write in Old English
An Austere Age Without Laughter
King Arthur: The Once And Future Misconception
Society
A "Peasants' Revolt"?
The Medieval Sense of History
The Medieval Peasant
Witches and the Myth of the Medieval Burning Times
The Medieval Child: an Unknown Phenomenon?
Were Women Able to Read and Write in the Middle Ages?
Teaching Chaucer in Middle English
The Medieval Chastity Belt Unbuckled
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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