LEADER 04893 am 22006493u 450 001 996318449203316 005 20231221113249.0 010 $a3-11-054648-5 010 $a3-11-054631-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110546484 035 $a(CKB)4100000009940231 035 $a(OAPEN)1006928 035 $a(DE-B1597)481523 035 $a(OCoLC)1129173926 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110546316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5380632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5380632 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52627 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009940231 100 $a20200406h20192020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMaking the Medieval Relevant $eHow Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present /$fConor Kostick, Chris Jones, Klaus Oschema 210 $cDe Gruyter$d2020 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (297) 225 0 $aDas Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ;$v6 311 $a3-11-054530-6 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tWhy Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe --$tProviding Reliable Data? Combining Scientific and Historical Perspectives on Flooding Events in Medieval and Early Modern Nuremberg (1400-1800) --$tMedieval History, Explosive Volcanism, and the Geoengineering Debate --$tThe Middle Ages in the Genetics Lab --$tCould Medieval Medicine Help the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance? --$tThe Contemporary Delegitimization of (Medieval) History - and of the Traditional University Curriculum as a Whole --$tPacific Perspectives: Why study Europe's Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand? --$tHow to be a Time Traveller: Exploring Venice with a Fifteenth-Century Pilgrimage Guide --$tHeaven Can Tell . . . Late Medieval Astrologers as Experts - and what they can Teach us about Contemporary Financial Expertise --$tEoin MacNeill's Early Medieval Ireland: A Scholarship for Politics or a Politics of Scholarship? --$tWhat's in a Word? Naming 'Muslims' in Medieval Christian Iberia --$tThe Enduring Power of the Cult of Relics - an Irish Perspective --$tResilience and Society in Medieval Southampton: An Archaeological Approach to Anticipatory Action, Politics, and Economy --$tStudying the Middle Ages: Historical Food for Thought in the Present Day --$tNotes on Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aWhen scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Medieval Studies have potential repercussions and value far beyond the boundaries of the Middles Ages. These chapters are powerful demonstrations of the value of medieval research to our own times, both in terms of providing answers to some of the specific questions facing humanity today and in terms of much broader considerations. Taken together, the research presented here also provides readers with confidence in the fact that Medieval Studies cannot be neglected without a great loss to the understanding of what it means to be human. 410 4$aDas Mittelalter. Perspektiven Media?vistischer Forschung. Beihefte 606 $aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval$2bicssc 606 $aMedieval history$2bicssc 606 $aSociety & social sciences$2bicssc 606 $aGender studies, gender groups$2bicssc 610 $aInterdisciplinarity. 610 $arelevance. 615 7$aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval 615 7$aMedieval history 615 7$aSociety & social sciences 615 7$aGender studies, gender groups 676 $a909.07 686 $aNM 1300$2rvk 700 $aOschema$b Klaus$4auth$01296011 702 $aJones$b Chris$f1977-$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aKostick$b Conor$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aOschema$b Klaus$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996318449203316 996 $aMaking the Medieval Relevant$93584664 997 $aUNISA