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ONLINE

1st ed.

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2019

1 online resource (304 pages)

ISBN 9783110546316 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783110545302

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven Mediavistischer Forschung. Beihefte Ser. ; v.6

Print version: Jones, Chris Making the Medieval Relevant Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc.,c2019 ISBN 9783110545302

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.

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, Latin philology, modern language philologies, history, and theology..

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