MAURELL Martin.
Ten misconceptions about the Middle Ages.
JC Lattès
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€19,90
| N° d'inventaire | 29341 |
| Format | 13 x 20.5 |
| Détails | 209 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782709671255 |
The Middle Ages have a bad reputation. Don't we say "medieval" for
How to describe a brutal situation? Little understood, it is equated with obscurantism, barbarism or impoverishment.
Historian Martin Aurell takes up the halberd to rescue the poor Middle Ages. He demolishes ten clichés with his accessible erudition. Fanaticism, hatred of women, ignorance, violence... It appears that in many respects, the Middle Ages have nothing to envy other periods, and that they are sometimes more modern than our 21st century !
How to describe a brutal situation? Little understood, it is equated with obscurantism, barbarism or impoverishment.
Historian Martin Aurell takes up the halberd to rescue the poor Middle Ages. He demolishes ten clichés with his accessible erudition. Fanaticism, hatred of women, ignorance, violence... It appears that in many respects, the Middle Ages have nothing to envy other periods, and that they are sometimes more modern than our 21st century !
How to describe a brutal situation? Little understood, it is equated with obscurantism, barbarism or impoverishment.
Historian Martin Aurell takes up the halberd to rescue the poor Middle Ages. He demolishes ten clichés with his accessible erudition. Fanaticism, hatred of women, ignorance, violence... It appears that in many respects, the Middle Ages have nothing to envy other periods, and that they are sometimes more modern than our 21st century !