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Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
Inventing the Middle Ages The Lives Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century Author:Norman F. Cantor In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages--with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies--was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be inve... more »nted, and this is the story of that invention. « less