Inventing the Middle Ages : the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists of the twentieth century

CONTENTS
1 THE QUEST FOR THE MIDDLE AGES
_{I. Between Rome and Renaissance -- II. Discovery and Learning -- III. The Medieval Mind -- IV. Recognitions and Formulations}

2 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}

3 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}

4 THE FRENCH JEWS - Louis Halpben and Marc Bloch
_{I. Flight and Return -- II. The Mandarins -- III. Lords and Peasants -- IV. The Long Duration}

5 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}

6 THE OXFORD FANTASISTS - Clive Staples Lewis, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and Frederick Maurice Powicke
_{I. Save the Beloved Land -- II. The Medieval Imagination -- III. The Long Journey -- IV. A Proustian Dreamworld}

7 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}

8 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}

9 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}

10 OUTRIDERS - Johan Huizinga, Eileen Edna Power, Michael Moissey Postan, Carl Erdmann, and Theodor Ernst Mommsen
_{I. Gorging Out -- II. Postimpressionism -- III. The Partnership -- IV. Saying No and Believing Yes}

NOTES
A CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
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