The Middle Ages Today

Professor Jennifer Pruitt and Phd Student Ahmed Abdelazim will be participating in a special Humanities Now event.

The topic is all about how – and why – the Middle Ages matter today. With public violence increasingly on display in our society, is history, too, under siege? We’ll talk about everything from the Crusades to Game of Thrones to white supremacy to how popular images of the medieval past connect to notions of race and religion, today.

Read the full article at: https://humanities.wisc.edu/events/entry/race-religion-and-revisionism-why-the-middle-ages-matter-now