Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, offering estimations of the historical accuracy of the works and demonstrating how they project their own contemporary era's obsessions and fears onto the past.
Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to t...
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes. Our ability to alter disease, even without modern medical treatments, is even more crucial lesson now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. The author's comparative...
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, ...
This is a survey of attitudes towards the environment in the Middle Ages, which was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. It takes the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500 across the whole of Europe, and focuses on the key areas of air, water, earth, wood and animals.
This is a survey of attitudes towards the environment in the Middle Ages, which was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natura...
Doctoring the Black Death provides the first full history of the medical response to the plague that devastated Europe throughout the later Middle Ages. The Black Death has been called humankind's greatest natural disaster, and the plague has been called the deadliest of all diseases. Thus, John Aberth argues, the Black Death posed one of the greatest challenges the medical profession has ever faced. Drawing on extensive archival research, Aberth has carefully examined the hundreds of plague treatises written in a range of languages from the first outbreak of the Black Death in Europe in...
Doctoring the Black Death provides the first full history of the medical response to the plague that devastated Europe throughout the later Middle Age...
Contesting the Middle Ages looks at nine of the most hotly debated topics in the historiography, the decline of Rome, the origins of Islam, the Viking invasion, the Crusades, persecution of minority groups, women, the rise of nominalism, the Black Death and lastly the waning of the Middle Ages. John Aberth in each chapter sets out the historiographical debates in an engaging and informative way to encourage students to think about the process of writing history. Explaining that history is only as accurate or truthful as the sources and evidence upon which it is based, as well as upon our...
Contesting the Middle Ages looks at nine of the most hotly debated topics in the historiography, the decline of Rome, the origins of Islam, the Vik...
Contesting the Middle Ages looks at nine of the most hotly debated topics in the historiography, the decline of Rome, the origins of Islam, the Viking invasion, the Crusades, persecution of minority groups, women, the rise of nominalism, the Black Death and lastly the waning of the Middle Ages. John Aberth in each chapter sets out the historiographical debates in an engaging and informative way to encourage students to think about the process of writing history. Explaining that history is only as accurate or truthful as the sources and evidence upon which it is based, as well as upon our...
Contesting the Middle Ages looks at nine of the most hotly debated topics in the historiography, the decline of Rome, the origins of Islam, the Vik...
