| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 7 |
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Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 7.
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| Contents |
Was the medieval church corrupt? / Frans van Liere -- Papal infallibility / Elaine M. Beretz -- "The age of faith" : everyone in the Middle Ages believed in God / Peter Dendle -- Everyone was an orthodox, educated Roman Catholic / Michael D.C. Drout -- Myth of the virgin nun / Mary Dockray-Miller -- Medieval Popess / Vincent DiMarco -- Medieval monks : funnier than you thought / Liam Ethan Felsen -- Medieval attitudes toward Muslims and Jews / Michael Frassetto -- Crusades : eschatological lemmings, younger sons, papal hegemony, and colonialism / Jessalynn Bird -- Myth of the mounted knight / James G. Patterson -- Myth of the flat earth / Louise M. Bishop -- Medieval sense of self / Ronald J. Ganze -- Middles Ages were a superstitious time / Peter Dendle -- Age before reason / Richard Raiswell -- Rehabilitating medieval medicine / Anne Van Arsdall -- Medieval misconceptions / Bryon Grigsby -- Medieval cuisine : hog's swill or culinary art? / Jean-Franc̦ois Kosta-Théfaine -- What did medieval people eat? / Christopher Roman -- Medieval drama / Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby -- Shakespeare did not write in Old English / Marijane Osborn -- Austere age without laughter / Michael W. George -- King Arthur : the once and future misconception / S. Elizabeth Passmore -- "Peasants revolt"? / Paul Strohm -- Medieval sense of history / Richard H. Godden -- Medieval peasant / Dinah Hazell -- Witches and the myth of the medieval Burning Times / Anita Obermeier -- Medieval child : an unknown phenomenon? / Sophie Oosterwijk -- Were women able to read and write in the Middle Ages? / Helen Conrad-O'Briain -- Teaching Chaucer in Middle English / C. David Benson -- Medieval chastity belt unbuckled / Linda Migl Keyser |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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Middle Ages.
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Civilization, Medieval -- Historiography
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Middle Ages -- Historiography.
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Common fallacies.
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HISTORY.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Civilization, Medieval -- Historiography
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Common fallacies
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Middle Ages
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Middle Ages -- Historiography
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Religion
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Mittelalter
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Medeltiden.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
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| Subject |
Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harris, Stephen J., 1966-
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Grigsby, Bryon Lee.
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| ISBN |
9780203932421 |
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0203932420 |
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041577053X |
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9780415770538 |
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