Winston Black

The Middle Ages

Facts and Fictions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages. This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history.

Produktdetails

• Historical Facts and Fictions
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781440862311
• ISBN-10: 1440862311
• Artikelnr.: 54920570

Autorenporträt

Winston Black is professor and scholar of medieval history. He specializes in the history of science and medicine of the medieval world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The Middle Ages Were the Dark Ages
2. Medieval People Thought the Earth Was Flat
3. Peasants Never Bathed, and They Ate Rotten Meat
4. People Were Terrified of the Year 1000
5. Medieval Wars Were Fought by Knights on Horseback
6. The Medieval Church Suppressed Science
7. Thousands of Children Died on Crusade in the Year 1212
8. There Was a Female Pope Named Joan
9. Medieval Medicine Was Nothing but Superstition
10. Medieval People Believed in Witches and Burned Them at the Stake
11. The Black Death Led to Masked Plague Doctors and Ring around the Rosie
Bibliography
Index