{"product_id":"why-the-middle-ages-matter-medieval-light-on-modern-injustice-9780415780650","title":"Why the Middle Ages Matter Medieval Light on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"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 offers models for thinking and acting differently. One need not agree with all of the authors represented in this volume either in their reading of the Middle Ages or in their recommendations for the present in order to applaud them for being what everyone should be: a thoughtful, engaged and critical participant in the great adventure of life. These learned and committed essays challenge the notion that the deep past is somehow irrelevant to the present and compel contemporary society to recognize that the human condition is essentially historical and that dialogue with the past is a necessity to build a different and better future. Patrick J. Geary \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor of History UCLA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Recommended. All levels\/libraries.\" - CHOICE, K. F. Drew\u003cem\u003e, Rice University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…\u003ci\u003eWhy the Middle Ages…\u003c\/i\u003eshow[s] how even the distant medieval past can be made relevant to the present through a sensitive integration of modern concerns with considered historical analysis. It offers a provocative starting point for those medieval historians who wish to engage in self-reflection or who are considering begging an ethical turn of their own.\" –Yvonne Seale, \u003ci\u003eHortulus Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. 1. Crime and Punishment: Penalizing Without Prisons \u003cem\u003eCelia Chazelle\u003c\/em\u003e 2. Social Deviancy: a Medieval Approach \u003cem\u003eGuy Geltner\u003c\/em\u003e 3. End of Life: Listening to the Monks of Cluny \u003cem\u003eFred Paxton\u003c\/em\u003e 4. Marriage: Medieval Couples and the Uses of Tradition \u003cem\u003eRuth Mazo Karras\u003c\/em\u003e 5. Women: The Da Vinci Code and the Fabrication of Tradition \u003cem\u003eFelice Lifshitz\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Homosexuality: Augustine and the Christian Closet \u003cem\u003eMathew Kuefler\u003c\/em\u003e 7. Sexual Scandal and the Clergy: a Medieval Blueprint for Disaster \u003cem\u003eDyan Elliott\u003c\/em\u003e 8. Labor: Insights from a Medieval Monastery \u003cem\u003eMartha Newman\u003c\/em\u003e 9. Disability?: Perspectives on Bodily Difference from the Middle East \u003cem\u003eKristina Richardson\u003c\/em\u003e 10. Race: What the Bookstore Hid \u003cem\u003eMaghan Keita\u003c\/em\u003e 11. Refugees: Views from Thirteenth-Century France \u003cem\u003eMegan Cassidy-Welch\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Torture and Truth: Torquemada’s Ghost \u003cem\u003eAmy Remensnyder\u003c\/em\u003e 13. Class Justice: Why we need a Wat Tyler Day \u003cem\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/em\u003e 14. Leadership: Why we have Mirrors for Princes but none for Presidents \u003cem\u003eGeoff Koziol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577330930007,"sku":"9780415780650","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415780650.jpg?v=1746094912","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-the-middle-ages-matter-medieval-light-on-modern-injustice-9780415780650","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}