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[...]we are so focused on medieval artifacts that we let our particular inquiries overtake all earlier ones. [...]each generation privileges its perspectives by increasingly losing sight of those of its predecessors. Did its focus on piety, purging violence, and the cult of family stain the research...

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Published inThe Journal of medieval and early modern studies Vol. 27; no. 3; p. 349
Main Author Solterer, Helen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.10.1997
Subjects
Critics
Essays
Historians
Middle Ages
Scholars
Studies
Europe
France
North America
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Summary:[...]we are so focused on medieval artifacts that we let our particular inquiries overtake all earlier ones. [...]each generation privileges its perspectives by increasingly losing sight of those of its predecessors. Did its focus on piety, purging violence, and the cult of family stain the research programs of feudalism, Romanesque sculpture, mystery plays? In several cases, these essays explore how medievalism itself could play a role in public affairs: the Occupation of France and Holland, the exodus to America, living and dying in German camps.
ISSN:1082-9636
1527-8263