Real Men of the Viking Age

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I – Stories
5. Introduction 9
6. The Invisible Peasantry 14
7. The Hidden Narratives of Medieval Art 23
8. Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades 34
9. Blood Libel, a Lie and Its Legacies 44
10. Who’s Afraid of Shari‘a Law? 58
11. How Do We Find Out About Immigrants in Later Medieval England? 69
12. The Middle Ages in the Harlem Renaissance 80
13. Part II – Origins
14. Introduction 89
15. Three Ways of Misreading Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an 94
16. The Nazi Middle Ages 104
17. What Would Benedict Do? 116
18. No, People in the Middle East Haven’t Been Fighting Since the Beginning of Time 127
19. Ivory and the Ties That Bind 140
20. Blackness, Whiteness, and the Idea of Race in Medieval European Art 154
21. England Between Empire and Nation in “The Battle of Brunanburh” 166
22. Whose Spain Is It, Anyway? 181
23. Part III – #Hashtags
24. Introduction 191
25. Modern Knights, Medieval Snails, and Naughty Nuns 196
26. Charting Sexuality and Stopping Sin 208
27. “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness 220
28. Whitewashing the “Real” Middle Ages in Popular Media 233
29. Real Men of the Viking Age 243
30. #DeusVult 256
31. Own Your Heresy 265
32. Afterword: Medievalists and the Education of Desire 275
33. Appendixes
34. Appendix I: Possibilities for Teaching—By Genre 293
35. Appendix II: Possibilities for Teaching— by Course Theme 296
36. List of Contributors 301
37. About the Editors 307