Misconceptions about the Middle Ages /
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Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2008. |
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Description: | viii, 298 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 7 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6678496 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Church
- 1. Was the Medieval Church Corrupt?
- 2. Papal Infallibility
- 3. "The Age of Faith": Everyone in the Middle Ages Believed in God
- 4. Everyone was an Orthodox, Educated Roman Catholic
- 5. The Myth of The Virgin Nun
- 6. The Medieval Popess
- 7. Medieval Monks: Funnier than You Thought
- 8. Medieval Attitudes Toward Muslims And Jews
- War and the State
- 9. The Crusades: Eschatological Lemmings, Younger Sons, Papal Hegemony and Colonialism
- 10. The Myth of the Mounted Knight
- 11. The Power of Medieval Kings
- Science
- 12. The Myth Of The Flat Earth
- 13. The Medieval Sense of Self
- 14. The Middle Ages Were a Superstitious Time
- 15. The Age Before Reason
- 16. Rehabilitating Medieval Medicine
- 17. Medical Misconceptions
- The Arts
- 18. Medieval Cuisine: Hog's Swill or Culinary Art?
- 19. What Did Medieval People Eat?
- 20. Medieval Drama
- 21. Shakespeare Did not Write in Old English
- 22. An Austere Age Without Laughter
- 23. King Arthur: The Once And Future Misconception
- Society
- 24. A "Peasants' Revolt"?
- 25. The Medieval Sense of History
- 26. The Medieval Peasant
- 27. Witches and the Myth of the Medieval Burning Times
- 28. The Medieval Child: an Unknown Phenomenon?
- 29. Were Women Able to Read and Write in the Middle Ages?
- 30. Teaching Chaucer in Middle English
- 31. The Medieval Chastity Belt Unbuckled
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index