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Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice

Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice

Chazelle, Celia
Doubleday, Simon
Lifshitz, Felice

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0415780659
ISBN13: 9780415780650
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 14 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The lessons of history cannot be reduced to some specious argument that knowledge of the past provides a privileged insight into the present. Nevertheless these essays show that a deep understanding of the otherness of the medieval past and of the myriad possibilities of belief, thought, and behavior of this distant and yet creative period, can help us to understand both how the medieval past has shaped our present as well as how this same past offers models for thinking and acting differently. One need not agree with all of the authors represented in this volume either in their reading of the Middle Ages or in their recommendations for the present in order to applaud them for being what everyone should be: a thoughtful, engaged and critical participant in the great adventure of life. These learned and committed essays challenge the notion that the deep past is somehow irrelevant to the present and compel contemporary society to recognize that the human condition is essentially historical and that dialogue with the past is a necessity to build a different and better future. Patrick J. Geary Distinguished Professor of History UCLA

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