Medieval History
Otto Gerhard Oexle, Die Gegenwart des Mittelalters, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2015, at Medievally Speaking, reviewed by Richard Utz:
This delightful cahier of 45 pages, published under the auspices of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, offers a revised version of a paper Otto Gerhard Oexle originally presented at the Academy's Mittelalterzentrum in 2012. To speak about the "Presence" or "Contemporaneity" of the Middle Ages, Oexle addresses three general areas:
1) An immediate presence visible in remains and monuments: Oexle quickly summarizes what we know about the fascination we moderns have with historical objects and buildings, and he likens the immediacy ("Unmittelbarkeit") of the pleasure experienced by lay visitors with that experienced by professional historians?. READ FULL REVIEW HERE
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Medieval History
Richard Utz reviews Oexle, Die Gegenwart des Mittelalters
This delightful cahier of 45 pages, published under the auspices of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, offers a revised version of a paper Otto Gerhard Oexle originally presented at the Academy's Mittelalterzentrum in 2012. To speak about the "Presence" or "Contemporaneity" of the Middle Ages, Oexle addresses three general areas:
1) An immediate presence visible in remains and monuments: Oexle quickly summarizes what we know about the fascination we moderns have with historical objects and buildings, and he likens the immediacy ("Unmittelbarkeit") of the pleasure experienced by lay visitors with that experienced by professional historians?. READ FULL REVIEW HERE
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Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Reviewed by Teresa Rupp ([email protected]) The formulation of the Middle Ages as the medium aevum, ?the time in the middle,? presupposes that its time...
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Medievally Speaking presents: Michael Evans reviews: David O. Scaer, Passacaglia. Roanoke, VA: 2014. Kevin J. Harty reviews: Game of Thrones, Season 5, originally broadcast 12 April-14 June 2015, in a review essay entitled, "Joan...
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