Introduction

• Published in: The Journal of medieval and early modern studies Vol. 27; no. 3; p. 349
• Main Author: Solterer, Helen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.10.1997
• Subjects: Critics; Essays; Historians; Middle Ages; Scholars; Studies; Europe; France; North America

[...]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...