The devil's historians how modern extremists abuse the medieval past
The Middle Ages are all around us, not just in history class, but in the world's most popular video games, in reenactments, at renaissance faires, and on HBO's Game of Thrones. But not all uses of the past are for innocent entertainment: Ku Klux Klan members still call themselves "kni...
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press
[2020]
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004426049708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : weaponizing history
- The middle ages : foundational myths
- Nationalism and nostalgia
- The "clash of civilizations"
- White (supremacist) knights
- Knights in shining armor and damsels in distress
- Medievalism and religious extremism
- Epilogue : the future of the medieval past
