Recasting the Past: The Middle Ages in Young Adult Literature

by Rebecca Barnhouse

Writers of adolescent fiction have long mined the Middle Ages for settings and materials-without much regard for historical accuracy. Too often, they perpetuate anachronistic fallacies, allowing modern attitudes about such things as literacy and tolerance for diversity to enter their presentation. So how are you to know whether a book is accurate? Where else can you look? That's where Recasting the Past steps in: both as a crash course in the Middle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867094702
• ISBN13: 9780867094701
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12