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Inventing the Middle Ages : the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the twentieth century / Norman F. Cantor.
- Title
- Inventing the Middle Ages : the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the twentieth century / Norman F. Cantor.
- Author
- Cantor, Norman F.
- Publication
- New York : W. Morrow, c1991.
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- Description
- 477 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalist of the twentieth century.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-448) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The quest for the Middle Ages. Between Rome and Renaissance ; Discovery and learning ; The Medieval mind ; Recognitions and formulations -- Law and society / Frederic William Maitland. A death in the Canary Islands ; Medievalism and modernism ; Present at the creation ; The reach of the common law -- The Nazi twins / Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz. Old Heidelberg ; In Hitler's shadow ; The imperial destiny ; The lost world of German idealism -- The French Jews / Louis Halphen and Marc Bloch. Flight and return ; The Mandarins ; Lords and peasants ; The long duration -- The Formalists / Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Robert Curtius. Formalism as interpretation and ideology ; The rise of iconology ; Fortune's child ; Preserving western civilization -- The Oxford fantasies / Clive Staples Lewis, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and Frederic Maurice Powicke. Save the beloved land ; The medieval imagination ; The long journey ; A Proustian dreamworld -- American pie / Charles Homer Haskins and Joseph Reese Strayer. The Wilsonians ; The contours of medieval government ; The northern supermen ; Cold War liberalism and the medieval state -- After the fall / Michael David Knowled and Etienne Henry Gilson. Absoluting the Middle Ages ; The rebellious monk ; The nemesis of sanctity ; The Christian philosopher -- The once and future king / Richard William Southern. The claim of the ideal ; Looking for Camelot ; "For he is an Englishmen" ; The knights of the southern round table -- Outriders / Johan Huizinga, Eileen Edna Power, Michael Moissey Postan, Carl Erdmann, and Theodor Ernst Mommsen. Gorging out ; Postimpressionism ; The partnership ; Saying no and believing yes.
- ISBN
- 0688094066 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^91022748^
- OCLC
- 23975292
- SCSB-10036223
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library