Making the Medieval Relevant. How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present

• Autor principal: Oschema, Klaus (auth)
• Otros Autores: Kostick, Conor (auth), Jones, Chris (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: De Gruyter 2020
• Colección: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte
• Materias: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Interdisciplinarity relevance
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to addr...