Inventing the Middle Ages by Cantor, Norman F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter One: The Quest for the Middle Ages

I. Between Rome and Renaissance II. Discovery and Learning III. The Medieval Mind IV. Recognitions and Formulations

Chapter Two: Law and Society: Frederic William Maitland

I. A Death in the Canary Islands II. Medievalism and Modernism III. Present at the Creation IV. The Reach of the Common Law

Chapter Three: The Nazi Twins: Percy Ernst Scbramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz

I. Old Heidelberg II. In Hitler’s Shadow III. The Imperial Destiny IV. The Lost World of German Idealism

Chapter Four: The French Jews: Louis Halpben and Marc Bloch

I. Flight and Return II. The Mandarins III. Lords and Peasants IV. The Long Duration

Chapter Five: The Formalists: Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Robert Curtius

I. Formalism as Interpretation and Ideology II. The Rise of Iconology III. Fortune’s Child IV. Preserving Western Civilization

I. Save the Beloved Land II. The Medieval Imagination III. The Long Journey IV. A Proustian Dreamworld

Chapter Seven: American Pie: Charles Homer Haskins and Joseph Reese Strayer

I. The Wilsonians II. The Contours of Medieval Government III. The Northern Supermen IV. Cold War Liberalism and the Medieval State

Chapter Eight: After the Fall: Michael David Knowles and Étienne Henry Gilson

I. Absolutizing the Middle Ages II. The Rebellious Monk III. The Nemesis of Sanctity IV. The Christian Philosopher

Chapter Nine: The Once and Future King: Richard William Southern

I. The Claim of the Ideal II. Looking for Camelot III. “For He Is an Englishman” IV. The Knights of the Southern Round Table

I. Gorging Out II. Postimpressionism III. The Partnership IV. Saying No and Believing Yes

Notes A Core Bibliography in Medieval Studies Index About the Author Also by Norman F. Cantor Credits Copyright About the Publisher