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Inventing the Middle Ages
the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the twentieth century
By Cantor, Norman L.
- ISBN
- 978-0-68809-406-5
- Publisher
- New York : W. Morrow, c1991.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1991
This book is much broader in scope than the title would imply. Part historiography, part biographical sketches, and part personal memoir, it explores the lives of the 20 scholars (19 men and one woman) whom Cantor perceives as "the great medievalists'' of the period 1895-1965. His thesis is that Wilsonian idealism, World War II, the Nazi Holocaust, and the Cold War shaped the world views and the interpretatio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
