Why write a
New History of the
European
Middle Ages
?
But to better combat
"identity tensions" of
course!
After the immense success of Patrick Boucheron and his
World History of France
, the Éditions du Seuil revived the
ideological-scientific
“mix of genres”
which had been all the rage.
The person in charge of this new collective of 1000 pages, published in the collection of the master, does not spare us the warnings of sermonary against those which would be at the origins of a
“manipulation”
of the Middle Ages.
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Ran Halévi: "World history or alternative history of France?"
Everyone knows today that the
“middle age”
, the
media aetas
, is not as barbaric as the humanists of the Renaissance wanted us to believe.
Well!
But our good minds would not want the reader to sink into an idolatry of this time and end up praising disturbing things, like the Christian roots of Europe!
It is essential, it is written in the preface of this book, to
"reject any mythical genealogy
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