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Fake News im Mittelalter? : Zur kulturellen Aushandlung von Falschheit in politischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskursen

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: German Series: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. BeiheftePublisher: Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) : heiUP [Imprint], 2026Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource VI, 236 p.)ISBN:
  • 9783968222042
  • 9783968222059
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: The “post-truth era” and a new kind of threat from uncontrollable fake news have been central components in diagnoses of the present for several years. However, the question of how historically new such phenomena actually are is controversial. This volume, which brings together contributions from the fields of history and literary studies, aims to provide a fundamental clarification of whether and in what respect we can speak of fake news in the Middle Ages. A theoretical introduction and case studies are used to examine the extent to which structural analogies can be identified for the constellation of phenomena that are currently referred to as fake news in the European Middle Ages and where the heuristic limits of such anachronism liePPN: PPN: 1983972517Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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