Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781440862328
144086232X
9781440862311
1440862311
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 22, 2019).
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| Summary: | "This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and stating they are wrong, this volume promotes critical historical analysis of those myths and how they came to be. Each of the ten chapters outlines a pervasive modern myth about medieval European history, describing "What People Think Happened" and "What Really Happened," and illustrating both trends with primary source documents. The book demonstrates that historical fictions also have a history, and that while we need to replace those fictions with facts about the medieval past, we can also benefit from understanding how a fiction about the Middle Ages developed and what that says about our modern perspectives on the past. Through this innovative presentation, readers are introduced to a wide range of sources, from Roman imperial perspectives on the "Fall of Rome" to songs of chivalry and chronicles of the Crusades, scientific treatises on the shape of the Earth and the creation of the universe and early modern stories and textbooks that developed or perpetuated historical myths."--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Black, Winston E., 1977- author. Middle Ages Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, 2019 9781440862311
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