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Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
by Magda TeterDrawing on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Magda Teter tells the history of the antisemitic blood libel myth, whose long shadow extends from premodern monastic chronicles to Facebook. The vocabulary and images that crystallized and spread with the invention of the printing press are st... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
by Geraldine Heng • Ryan Szpiech • Andrew Reeves • Katherine Wilson • Helen Young • Nicholas L. Paul • Maggie Williams • William Diebold • W. Mark Ormrod • J. Patrick • Lauren Mancia • Sandy Bardsley • Adam Bishop • Marian Bleeke • Will Cerbone • Fred Donner • Sarah Guérin • Stephennie Mulder • Pamela Patton • Magda Teter • Elizabeth Tyler • David Wacks • Cord WhitakerWhose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back int... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019