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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant, "Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Description: InĀ The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval PastĀ (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for āmedieval timesā behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us how the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every century that followed.Ā The Devilās HistoriansĀ casts aside the myth of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular...