Making the Medieval Relevant : How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving Our Understanding of the Present.
This new series, launched by the Medievalists' Society in 2014, provides a forum for exceptional, topically focused anthologies and conference volumes as well as medievalist monographs. The journal accepts submissions in all disciplines represented by the Society, including Byzantine studies, L...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter, Inc.,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven Mediàˆvistischer Forschung. Beihefte Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Why Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe
- Science
- Providing Reliable Data? Combining Scientific and Historical Perspectives on Flooding Events in Medieval and Early Modern Nuremberg (1400-1800)
- Medieval History, Explosive Volcanism, and the Geoengineering Debate
- The Middle Ages in the Genetics Lab
- Could Medieval Medicine Help the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance?
- Education
- The Contemporary Delegitimization of (Medieval) History - and of the Traditional University Curriculum as a Whole
- Pacific Perspectives: Why study Europe's Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand?
- How to be a Time Traveller: Exploring Venice with a Fifteenth-Century Pilgrimage Guide
- Society
- Heaven Can Tell . . . Late Medieval Astrologers as Experts - and what they can Teach us about Contemporary Financial Expertise
- Eoin MacNeill's Early Medieval Ireland: A Scholarship for Politics or a Politics of Scholarship?
- What's in a Word? Naming 'Muslims' in Medieval Christian Iberia
- The Enduring Power of the Cult of Relics - an Irish Perspective
- Resilience and Society in Medieval Southampton: An Archaeological Approach to Anticipatory Action, Politics, and Economy
- Reflections
- Studying the Middle Ages: Historical Food for Thought in the Present Day
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.