Misconceptions about the Middle Ages

Misconceptions about the Middle Ages [Texte imprimé] / edited by Stephen J. Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby - New York : Routledge, 2008 - 1 vol. (VIII-298 p.) ; 24 cm - Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture . - Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture (Routledge, New York) ; 7 .

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Was the medieval church corrupt? / Papal infallibility / "The age of faith" : everyone in the Middle Ages believed in God / Everyone was an orthodox, educated Roman Catholic / Myth of the virgin nun / Medieval Popess / Medieval monks : funnier than you thought / Medieval attitudes toward Muslims and Jews / Crusades : eschatological lemmings, younger sons, papal hegemony, and colonialism / Myth of the mounted knight / Myth of the flat earth / Medieval sense of self / Middles Ages were a superstitious time / Age before reason / Rehabilitating medieval medicine / Medieval misconceptions / Medieval cuisine : hog's swill or culinary art? / What did medieval people eat? / Medieval drama / Shakespeare did not write in Old English / Austere age without laughter / King Arthur : the once and future misconception / "Peasants revolt"? / Medieval sense of history / Medieval peasant / Witches and the myth of the medieval Burning Times / Medieval child : an unknown phenomenon? / Were women able to read and write in the Middle Ages? / Teaching Chaucer in Middle English / Medieval chastity belt unbuckled / Frans van Liere -- Elaine M. Beretz -- Peter Dendle -- Michael D. C. Drout -- Mary Dockray-Miller -- Vincent DiMarco -- Liam Ethan Felsen -- Michael Frassetto -- Jessalynn Bird -- James G. Patterson -- Louise M. Bishop -- Ronald J. Ganze -- Peter Dendle -- Richard Raiswell -- Anne Van Arsdall -- Bryon Grigsby -- Jean-Franc̦ois Kosta-Théfaine -- Christopher Roman -- Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby -- Marijane Osborn -- Michael W. George -- S. Elizabeth Passmore -- Paul Strohm -- Richard H. Godden -- Dinah Hazell -- Anita Obermeier -- Sophie Oosterwijk -- Helen Conrad-O'Briain -- C. David Benson -- Linda Migl Keyser

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