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The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions

The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions

Black, Winston

Hardcover

Series: Historical Facts and Fictions

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 1440862311
ISBN13: 9781440862311
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages.

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.

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