The Mirror of the Medieval

The Mirror of the MedievalSince its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the Middle Ages has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projectsfrom nationalism to the discipline of anthropologyhave appropriated the

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The book consists of a series of interconnected case studies of movies

In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining the Western philosophical tradition

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and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva

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