TY  - JOUR
AU  - Albrecht Classen
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 34
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - John H. Arnold,  What is History? series. Cambridge and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021, 2nd rev. and updated ed. (orig. 2008), xvii, 178 pp., 4 b/w ill., 3 maps.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2021.01.17
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1238964
N2  - Anyone who wants to embark on the study of medieval history can be safely advised to consult this excellent, already revised and updated introduction by John H. Arnold. Here, a true expert is addressing many of the crucial issues that determine our approach to history at large and medieval history in particular. The introductory section might be a little confusing, though, addressing a unique case of torture in the early fourteenth century, but soon, we find ourselves in a wide-ranging discussion on what the Middle Ages actually meant, how it gained a hermeneutic identity, and how we should approach it today in a critical, academic fashion.
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