York: York Medieval Press, 2017. — 240 p.
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub, Some Thoughts on the Making of the Middle Ages
Imagining / Inventing the Middle AgesJinty Nelson, Why Re-Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea
Ian Wood, Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian in the Nineteenth Century
Constructing a European IdentityPatrick Geary, European Ethnicities and European as an Ethnicity: Does Europe Have Too Much History?
Michael Borgolte, A Crisis of the Middle Ages? Deconstructing and Constructing European Identities in a Globalized World
National history / Notions of MythBastian Schlüter, Barbarossa’s Heirs: Nation and Medieval History in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany
Joep Leerssen, Once Upon a Time in Germany: Medievalism, Academic Romanticism and Nationalism
Bernhard Jussen, Between Ideology and Technology: Depicting Charlemagne in Modern Times
Land and FrontiersRichard Hitchcock, Reflections on the Frontier in Early Medieval Iberia
Christian Lübke, Germany’s Growth to the East: from the Polabian Marches to Germania Slavica
Rewriting Medieval ReligionChristine Caldwell Ames, Distance and Difference: Medieval Inquisition as American History
Peter Biller, Mind the Gap: Modern and Medieval ‘Religious’ Vocabularies