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Title:

Misconceptions about the Middle Ages / edited by Stephen J. Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

viii, 298 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Civilization, Medieval.
Middle Ages.
Civilization, Medieval--Historiography.
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Europe--Errors, inventions, etc.--Errors, inventions, etc.
Common fallacies.

Other Authors:

Harris, Stephen J., 1966-
Grigsby, Bryon Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-290) and index.

Contents:

Medieval chastity belt unbuckled / Linda Migl Keyser. 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.

Series:

Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 7

ISBN:

041577053X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415770538 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007030588

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)