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Through a carefully curated collection of readings and sources, this text focuses on critical issues that have concerned people throughout time and illustrates how studying the Middle Ages from an interdisciplinary perspective can shed light on contemporary efforts to deal with these issues. The book explores a variety of themes from philosophical musings on happiness and misfortune to practical applications of medieval jurisprudence and social theory. The third edition has been shortened and streamlined to make the content more digestible for students.

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Albrecht Classen is a University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, where he teaches and researches medieval and early modern European literature, culture, and art history. He has published more than 135 scholarly monographs, editions, translations, critical volumes, and textbooks, and more than 880 articles.

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