Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages

Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-096-1
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Teaching the Middle Ages

This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. Combining a careful study of public engagement in Europe between 1000 and 1500 with the author’s experiences working at a public research library, this book shows medievalists how to use mindsets, approaches, and practices from the Middle Ages to build productive connections with diverse publics beyond academia. To do so, it describes the systemic roadblocks preventing effective public engagement in the academy; offers four medieval solutions to those issues from the work of prominent intellectuals and anonymous laypeople from medieval Europe; and suggests how scholars can incorporate those solutions into their professional development. In so doing, this book will help present and future generations of professional medievalists to make their expertise engaging, relevant, and valuable for contemporary audiences of all kinds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Christopher D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Peter Damian and the Life of Service Conviction

Chapter 2. Hildegard of Bingen and Genre Diversity

Chapter 3. Henry Suso and Audience Development

Chapter 4. Newberry Inc. 1699 and Audience Empowerment

Chapter 5. The Public Engagement Game Plan

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fletcher, Christopher D
Dr. Christopher D. Fletcher is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where he regularly shares medieval history with diverse publics through his research, programs, collection presentations, digital resources, exhibitions, and more.