Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice

by Simon R. Doubleday and Celia Chazelle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415780640
• ISBN13: 9780415780643
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"