Inventing the Middle Ages (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman F. Cantor
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1895-1965
- Setting: Western Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Marc Bloch, Ernst Robert Curtius, Carl Erdmann, Etienne Gilson, Louis Halphen, Charles Homer Haskins, Johan Huizinga, Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, David Knowles, C. S. Lewis, Frederic William Maitland, Theodor Ernst Mommsen, Erwin Panofsky, Michael Moissey Postan, Frederick Maurice Powicke, Eileen Power, Percy Ernst Schramm, R. W. Southern, Joseph Reese Strayer, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Politics, Literature, Feminism, Fantasy, Nazism or Nazis, Middle Ages, Biography, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Inventions or inventors, Feudalism
- Locales: Europe, United States
The concept of the Middle Ages, or, as in some European languages, “the Middle Age,” originated in the eighteenth century, but according to Norman Cantor, modern understanding of the millennium between the decline of the Greco-Roman world and the era commonly termed “the Renaissance” derives primarily from twenty scholars who worked between about 1895 and 1965. Some medievalists are sure to challenge Cantor’s list of leading lights as well as many of the judgments he makes in this provocative study, but they will recognize that they are challenging a man of great erudition and...
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