Can These Bones Come to Life? , Volume 2: High in Protean Content

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ISBN 10: 1937439143 / ISBN 13: 9781937439149

Edité par Freelance Academy Press, 2014

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2014. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

N° de réf. du vendeur V9781937439149

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• Titre: Can These Bones Come to Life? , Volume 2: High in Protean Content
• Éditeur: Freelance Academy Press
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1937439143
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781937439149
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Understanding the past takes more forms than historiography. Since 2005, professional and amateur scholars have come together at the annual International Medieval Congress in Western Michigan University to discuss the role re-construction, re-enactment and re-creation can play in 'breathing life into these dry bones' to deepen our knowledge of the past. Under the sponsorship of the Higgins Armory Museum and the Oakeshott Institute, presenters have looked at subjects ranging from ore smelting to equitation to the use of recreation and reenactment in the classroom. This volume brings together seven papers examining the depth and breadth in which experimental archaeology and textual analysis can come together to reveal the past. From glass beads to iron smelting, the profession of arms to the chivalric virtues of franchise and 'doing what one said they would do', this collection provides a unique insight into both the daily and intellectual life of medieval man. It will be of interest not only to professional historians, musicologists, literary scholars and art historians, but also to the vast army of impassioned and enthusiastic practitioners who endeavor, as a labor of love, to make the past come to life.

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Cramer is a communications professor at the City College of New York, actor and filmmaker. He is the author of A Confederacy of Whores: Media and Politics in George W. Bush's America (2008) and Medieval Fantasy as Performance (2010).