Why the Middle Ages matter : medieval light on modern injustice /
"The word "medieval" is often used in a negative way when talking about contemporary issues; Why the Middle Ages Matter refreshes our thinking about this historical era, and our own, by looking at some pressing concerns from today's world, asking how these issues were really hand...
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London ; New York :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Crime and punishment: penalizing without prisons / Celia Chazelle
- Social deviancy: a medieval approach / G. Geltner
- End of life: listening to the monks of Cluny / Frederick S. Paxton
- Marriage: medieval couples and the uses of tradition / Ruth Mazo Karras
- Women: The Da Vinci code and the fabrication of tradition / Felice Lifshitz
- Homosexuality: Augustine and the Christian closet / Mathew Kuefler
- Sexual scandal and the clergy: a medieval blueprint for disaster / Dyan Elliott
- Labor: insights from a medieval monastery / Martha G. Newman
- Disability?: Perspectives on bodily difference from the Middle East / Kristina Richardson
- Race: what the bookstore hid / Maghan Keita
- Refugees: views from thirteenth-century France / Megan Cassidy-Welch
- Torture and truth: Torquemada's ghost / Amy G. Remensnyder
- Class justice: why we need a Wat Tyler day / Peter Linebaugh
- Leadership: why we have mirrors for princes but none for presidents / Geoffrey Koziol.