Why Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Why Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe 1
4. Science
5. Providing Reliable Data? Combining Scientific and Historical Perspectives on Flooding Events in Medieval and Early Modern Nuremberg (1400–1800) 31
6. Medieval History, Explosive Volcanism, and the Geoengineering Debate 45
7. The Middle Ages in the Genetics Lab 99
8. Could Medieval Medicine Help the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance? 113
9. Education
10. The Contemporary Delegitimization of (Medieval) History – and of the Traditional University Curriculum as a Whole 135
11. Pacific Perspectives: Why study Europe’s Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand? 151
12. How to be a Time Traveller: Exploring Venice with a Fifteenth-Century Pilgrimage Guide 171
13. Society
14. Heaven Can Tell . . . Late Medieval Astrologers as Experts – and what they can Teach us about Contemporary Financial Expertise 191
15. Eoin MacNeill’s Early Medieval Ireland: A Scholarship for Politics or a Politics of Scholarship? 211
16. What’s in a Word? Naming ‘Muslims’ in Medieval Christian Iberia 225
17. The Enduring Power of the Cult of Relics – an Irish Perspective 239
18. Resilience and Society in Medieval Southampton: An Archaeological Approach to Anticipatory Action, Politics, and Economy 255
19. Reflections
20. Studying the Middle Ages: Historical Food for Thought in the Present Day 277
21. Notes on Contributors 289
22. Index 293