Whose Middle Ages? Charles Fanning the television show Battlestar Galactica

the television show Battlestar Galactica

and the unsolvable loneliness that so many experience despite carrying around a tiny device that claims it can connect them to any human anywhere on earth

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose

'To snatch the passing moment and examine it for eternity is the noblest of occupations

--What is the world beyond death really like and what tasks await us there

Whose Middle Ages? Charles Fanning the television show Battlestar GalacticaWhose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our