Taking Heaven by Violence
The Middle Ages in the Making of the West
$79.21
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2027
Summary
In grand narratives of Western Civilization, the Middle Ages pose a problem. On the one hand, the very concept of the medieval, from its first formulation, was deployed as a negative term imputing barbarism, ignorance, and superstition to the millennium intervening between idealized antiquity and the present moment. On the other hand, by the very logic of that same formulation, the Middle Ages are positioned at the heart of Western Civilization and its historical development. As a result of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781641775380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1641775386 |
| Author: | Charles C. Yost |
| Publisher: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Imprint: | Encounter Books,USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Charles C. Yost
Charles C. Yost is assistant professor of medieval history at Hillsdale College. He earned his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2019 and his MA in Medieval Studies at Columbia University in 2012. At Hillsdale College, he was named “Professor of the Year” in 2024.
Although his specific areas of research are the historic relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Latin West, the problem of the schism, and Byzantine intellectuals who supported communion with Rome, he has taught and written broadly on medieval and Byzantine civilization in both popular and academic venues.
In 2025, his study comparing Rome and Constantinople in the discourse of pro-union Byzantine intellectuals appeared in the journal Pietas. His major study on the thought of the last great Byzantine unionist, John Plousiadenos (d. 1500), will appear in Speculum, the premier anglophone journal of Medieval Studies, in April 2026.
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