Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice de Celia Chazelle

Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice

Editat de Celia Chazelle, Simon Doubleday, Felice Lifshitz, Amy G. Remensnyder

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2011

În literatura academică actuală, termenul „medieval” este frecvent utilizat ca peiorativ pentru a descrie acte de cruzime sau sisteme de gândire învechite, creând o prăpastie artificială între prezentul „iluminat” și un trecut perceput ca barbar. Why the Middle Ages Matter completează exact această lacună, propunând o reevaluare a Evului Mediu nu ca o epocă a întunericului, ci ca o resursă vitală pentru înțelegerea nedreptăților sociale moderne. Remarcăm modul în care volumul refuză să trateze istoria ca pe un simplu muzeu de curiozități, alegând în schimb să analizeze cum probleme presante — de la criza refugiaților și drepturile femeilor, până la îngrijirea paliativă și integrarea foștilor deținuți — își găsesc precedente și soluții surprinzătoare în perioada medievală.

Structura cărții este riguros organizată în 14 capitole care funcționează ca „oglinzi” pentru societatea contemporană. De exemplu, analiza lui Celia Chazelle despre penalitate fără închisori sau eseul lui Amy G. Remensnyder despre mecanismele torturii oferă perspective care depășesc simpla cronologie. Why the Middle Ages Matter este comparabil cu Medieval Answers to Modern Problems în rigurozitate, dar este actualizat pentru dinamica curentă a justiției sociale, punând un accent mult mai pronunțat pe diversitate etnică și de gen. Dacă în lucrările anterioare ale editorilor, precum The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era, accentul cădea pe teologie și artă, acest volum extinde aria de cercetare către politicile de incluziune și drepturile omului. Rezultatul este o lucrare echilibrată, care demonstrează că studiul istoriei medievale este, în fapt, un exercițiu esențial de autocunoaștere pentru cetățeanul modern.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415780650
ISBN-10: 0415780659
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților și profesorilor de istorie sau științe politice care doresc să depășească clișeele istorice. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care societățile pre-moderne gestionau crizele umane, oferind argumente solide pentru dezbaterile actuale despre justiție socială. Este un instrument critic care transformă studiul arhivelor într-o lecție de etică și politici publice, esențială pentru oricine analizează rădăcinile inegalității moderne.

Despre autor

Celia Chazelle este profesoară la The College of New Jersey din 1992, fiind o autoritate în teologia și cultura carolingiană, cu lucrări de referință precum The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era. Alături de ea, Felice Lifshitz, profesor la Florida International University, aduce o expertiză vastă în hagiografie și discurs istoriografic, fiind autoarea volumului The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria. Împreună cu Simon Doubleday și Amy G. Remensnyder, acest colectiv editorial de prestigiu reușește să integreze cercetarea istorică de arhivă cu necesitățile pedagogice ale curriculumului universitar contemporan, oferind o perspectivă interdisciplinară asupra mileniului medieval.

Descriere scurtă

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 handled in the medieval period, and showing why the past matters now. The contributors here cover topics such as torture, marriage, sexuality, imprisonment, refugees, poverty, work, the status of women, disability, race, political leadership and end of life care. They focus on a variety of regions, from North Africa and the Middle East, through Western and Central Europe, to the British Isles.
This collection challenges many negative stereotypes of medieval people, revealing a world from which, for instance, much could be learned about looking after the spiritual needs of the dying, and about integrating prisoners into the wider community through an emphasis on reconciliation between victim and criminal. It represents a new level of engagement with issues of social justice by medievalists and provides a highly engaging way into studying the middle ages. All the essays are written so as to be accessible to students, and each is accompanied by a list of further readings.

Cuprins

Introduction. 1. Crime and Punishment: Penalizing Without Prisons Celia Chazelle 2. Social Deviancy: a Medieval Approach Guy Geltner 3. End of Life: Listening to the Monks of Cluny Fred Paxton 4. Marriage: Medieval Couples and the Uses of Tradition Ruth Mazo Karras 5. Women: The Da Vinci Code and the Fabrication of Tradition Felice Lifshitz 6. Homosexuality: Augustine and the Christian Closet Mathew Kuefler 7. Sexual Scandal and the Clergy: a Medieval Blueprint for Disaster Dyan Elliott 8. Labor: Insights from a Medieval Monastery Martha Newman 9. Disability?: Perspectives on Bodily Difference from the Middle East Kristina Richardson 10. Race: What the Bookstore Hid Maghan Keita 11. Refugees: Views from Thirteenth-Century France Megan Cassidy-Welch 12. Torture and Truth: Torquemada’s Ghost Amy Remensnyder 13. Class Justice: Why we need a Wat Tyler Day Peter Linebaugh 14. Leadership: Why we have Mirrors for Princes but none for Presidents Geoff Koziol

Recenzii

The "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 Distinguished Professor of History UCLA
"Recommended. All levels/libraries." - CHOICE, K. F. Drew, Rice University, USA
"…Why the Middle Ages…show[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, Hortulus Journal

Notă biografică

Chazelle, Celia; Doubleday, Simon; Lifshitz, Felice; Remensnyder, Amy G.

Descriere

The "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 Distinguished Professor of History UCLA
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 handled in the medieval period, and showing why the past matters now. The contributors here cover topics such as torture, marriage, sexuality, imprisonment, refugees, poverty, work, the status of women, disability, race, political leadership and end of life care. They focus on a variety of regions, from North Africa and the Middle East, through Western and Central Europe, to the British Isles. All the essays are written so as to be accessible to students, and each is accompanied by a list of further readings.