Medieval History
Elizabeth S. Leet reviews: Barthélemy, Dominique. The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian. Trans. Graham Robert Edwards. Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009, for Medievally Speaking:
In the ten years after the original publication of Mutation de l?an mil, a-t-elle eu lieu? (Fayard, 1997), the combative argumentation and vehement assertions that characterize Dominique Barthélemy?s monograph continue to echo throughout medieval scholarship surrounding the social, political, and military climates of the post-Carolingian period. By opposing the ?reductionist and unbalanced? caricatures of both feudal society and, in particular, the so-called pivotal shifts between 930 and 1070 after which feudal society came into being, Barthélemy revisits the evidence that leads others to false conclusions. By dissecting texts and their respective contexts, he demonstrates the more complete understanding we may gain by reconsidering the evidence without anticipating the monolithic conclusions scholars have sometimes drawn. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE.
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Medieval History
Medievally Speaking Reviews The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian
In the ten years after the original publication of Mutation de l?an mil, a-t-elle eu lieu? (Fayard, 1997), the combative argumentation and vehement assertions that characterize Dominique Barthélemy?s monograph continue to echo throughout medieval scholarship surrounding the social, political, and military climates of the post-Carolingian period. By opposing the ?reductionist and unbalanced? caricatures of both feudal society and, in particular, the so-called pivotal shifts between 930 and 1070 after which feudal society came into being, Barthélemy revisits the evidence that leads others to false conclusions. By dissecting texts and their respective contexts, he demonstrates the more complete understanding we may gain by reconsidering the evidence without anticipating the monolithic conclusions scholars have sometimes drawn. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE.
- Rahman Reviews: Knight, Reading Robin Hood
Sabina Rahman recently reviewed: Stephen Knight, Reading Robin Hood, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015, for Medievally Speaking:Reading Robin Hood stands as Stephen Knight?s third book devoted to the outlaw hero, preceded by Robin...
- Swan Reviews Dinshaw; Heisler Reviews Keymeulen/tollebeek
Two new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Jesse Swan, in a review entitled "Dinshaw Glue and Other Queer Products of Attachment," speaks about Carolyn Dinshaw's How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Durham:...
- Medievally Speaking Reviews Tv Ad And Publishes Interview
Medievally SpeakingTwo new publications on Medievally Speaking, our first review of a TV Commercial: Claudiu Mesaro?'s take on Tarsem Singh, dir., Medieval Fighting for Pepsi; and our first interview: "I see medievalism as a pretty...
- Medievally Speaking Seeks Assistant Editors
Medievally Speaking, an online journal operating under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism and dedicated to reviewing all academic and creative reinventions and reimaginations of medieval culture in postmedieval...
- Dr. Tim Graham
Two bits of news concerning fellow-member Tim Graham: 1) Cornell has just published Introduction to Manuscript Studies, co-authored by Tim and Raymond Clemens. For more details point your browser at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4721...