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Middle Rages: Why The Battle For Medieval Studies Matters To America Paperback – May 9, 2019

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Medieval Studies is the critical study of Europe's self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevitably, Left-wing academics want to introduce gender studies and race theory to the field--and punish those who refuse to conform. When one University of Chicago professor dared to publicly celebrate the Christian identity of the Middle Ages, she was branded a 'violent fascist' and 'white supremacist' by her colleagues.

Now Medieval Studies scholars are tearing their own discipline apart with witch-hunts, name-calling, boycotts and intimidation. The damage done to academia could be incalculable. In this influential essay, originally published to widespread acclaim online, New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist Milo Yiannopoulos explains why all Americans should care about the newest front in the cultural war, the academic battle for the Middle Ages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dangerous Books (May 9, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9527303559
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9527303559
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.21 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.25 x 7 inches
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His every conceivable professional aspiration achieved by the age of thirty-three, and his legacy as undefeated champion of campus and television battlefields eternally guaranteed, in 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos retired. Milo was the most influential and prolific writer and activist of his generation throughout a short but dazzling career in which he prayed for, but was never granted, a leftist of equal talents to play with. Nicknamed the “pop star of hate” by jealous fatties in the media, he was banned from entire continents for his unapologetic commitment to the sound of his own voice.

But it was a voice worth hearing. Architect, chronicler and simultaneously paladin prince heartthrob of countless era-defining public clashes, Milo saw around corners at what was coming next and peered into his enemies’ souls to fathom their weaknesses. Milo conjured “Daddy” for Donald Trump, neatly capturing our national yearning. À propos of nothing, he wondered aloud, “Would you rather your child had feminism… or cancer?” In headlines, he asked coquettishly whether birth control made women “unattractive and crazy.” That last one earned him a dramatic reading from a theatrically wounded Hillary Clinton.

When he was not predicting the future, Milo was writing it, shaping it in his own image. It was Milo who expertly ushered Gamergate into mainstream discourse, leaving feminism with a bloody nose just in time for the election. Milo, single-handedly and overnight, ended the “campus rape culture” hysteria and “gender pay gap” mythology with thunderous victories over grizzling opponents. His first book, Dangerous, sold a quarter of a million copies while the author was blacklisted by every publication in America and banned from social media. This achievement will never be repeated.

Now, as then, Milo writes strictly for his own amusement. These days, Milo ghost-writes bestselling autobiographies for the few media personalities who can afford his monstrous fees… and sustain his interest. You’ve most likely read one of his hobby projects and not known it. Under his own name and those of his appreciative clients, Milo has sold over three million books since 2016—but he’s not counting, because it’s gauche, and tiring, and interfere with his other chief hobby: A carefully-maintained air of nonchalance keeping time between eruptions of commercial success.

A peerless icon of the modern political milieu, Milo’s championship title as troll-in-chief remains unthreatened even now, after half a decade of unrelenting imitation. He doesn’t care either way. Milo sauntered into premature and absurd retirement as a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning reporter, an international cultural and political phenomenon, a free speech martyr, an accomplished serial entrepreneur, a hair icon, and, at least behind closed doors, a penitent.

Lately, events have conspired to ruin this self-indulgent existence. In 2020, Milo’s renewed devotion to the Catholic faith began to liberate him from disorder and lifelong homosexual urges. He began a celibate life--initially, in melancholic resignation, quickly thereafter struck dumb by the rejuvenating effect of rejecting sin. And then something reared its head that Milo had not anticipated: A burgeoning sense of moral duty within. And just like that, our hero finally got over himself. Inspired to give back after a lifetime of privilege and unfair genetic advantage, Milo is opening a conversion therapy clinic for other men plagued by same-sex attraction, into a world that could not be any more doubting or hostile.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019
    Courageous, insightful and necessary. The battle for medieval history is the battle for the Western civilization - the Middle Ages are the root and the soul of the West.

    There were good and bad things in the medieval times, but the truth doesn't resemble the caricature we all see in the media. We are actally taught lies, sometimes even stupid lies. I remember how shocked I was by Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book" - it was a well written story, but the author really seemed to believe that in the Middle Ages all people, except a few nobles, wore grey homespun, never made their beds, never washed anything including the dishes, never ate anything of exquisite taste, never bulit any elaborate buildings, etc. Perhaps it was rather Ms Willis who never read Boccaccio, who never saw brightly coloured medieval paintings and who thought that all the gothic cathedrals had been built by English protestants. Anyway, such mindset is typical of modern ignorants who are now trying to destroy historians like Ms Fulton Brown.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019
    This is a really good piece of reporting on the state of Medieval Studies in America. It takes an in-depth look at how social justice warriors are trying to take over Medieval Studies, just as they have taken over other fields in the humanities. (Classical and Medieval Studies have lasted the longest against SJWs because understanding ancient and defunct languages and dialects requires above average intelligence.) Professor Brown appears to have been the most recent lightning rod for SJW activism. One is disheartened to read about how few academics would publicly defend Brown, and how many preferred to recite the lies told against her by others. But, the Postscript at least gives us hope that it will be a long time yet before Medieval Studies becomes politicised.

    Many people don't like Milo Yiannopoulos, but he is an excellent reporter. When he fills this role without attempting to be an entertainer or provocateur, he has few equals. This book shows Milo at his best, and anyone with an interest in the state of Medieval Studies in America should read it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020
    This monograph narrates an academic tempest that borders on the inane. The main thing we glean from this modest book is that academics, now fully engaged in twitter battles, sure don't comport themselves with the dignity they used to. I recommend this only as evidence of how fallen we are as a culture. That the most educated amongst us should engage in twitter battles of the most degraded and sophomoric kind is a modern tragedy.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019
    Milo writes about how one University of Chicago professor Rachel Fulton-Brown, is standing up to the conquest of her feild by the social justice mob. Absurdly, they are attacking Medieval Studies, which has always been the study of European society between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, as being to white. They are demanding that it be transformed into the study of how terrible white men are and always have been.

    Milo has conducted interviews of people on both sides of the conflict. Those on the social justice side, have engaged in all sorts of political maneuvers to gain power within the field. Those who resist, are ganged up on and attacked with bogus accusations of various"isms". They also draw up petitions demanding that resistors be fired. They may hurl a barrage of on-line attacks against them, or demand that they be excluded from important functions. These people often fight dirty, faulslesly accusing resistors of causing them tremendous harm and mental damage. (In their defense, there is truth to this because it only takes one person standing up to them and not facing consequences, to encourage others. This is a threat to anyone who lives by bullying and lying their way through life).

    Milo has somehow got some very nasty and hateful SJW characters to open up to him and now he has written us a book that gives us a glimpse into their psyches. This is an invaluable book for anyone who has to deal with agressive SJW activism.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019
    I am very pleased I found this. It explains some of the rubbish going on in the "profession" of historian, and how hard the establishment is trying to fit modern preferences into the frame of history.

    It seems there is nothing the usual suspects won't do to convert every discipline to the study of "social justice" no matter how ridiculous the issue.

    it will not be long before we are told with a straight face that Eleanor of Aquitane's major policy advisor was an intersex nubian slave.... who was really her lesbian husband!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019
    I have to admit, I knew little to nothing about Medieval Studies before I bought Middle Rages but I did go to Rachel Fulton Brown’s blog, Fencing Bear at Prayer to read her post Three Cheers for White Men which caused quite the maelstrom and figures prominently in this book. Still trying to figure out why the social justice warriors considered this to be racist. She makes three concise points. You can agree or disagree. But racist? No! If this wasn’t such a serious topic I would find this amusing just because of the incredulity of the outrage and smear tactics launched against Fulton Brown. I used to laugh and mock the SJWs but now it’s frightening how they have such a stronghold in almost all departments of education. They do not tolerate diversity of thought or opinions and there is no such thing as debating with them, only shouting matches and the banning of those they disagree with from the public forum.

    Milo gives a sound explanation on the importance of Medieval Studies, and how it relates to the Middle Ages and western civilization. He sounds the warning that if the social justice warriors are successful in overtaking Medieval Studies which sounds like one of last bastions where they haven’t been successful, then all humanities could be doomed. Heed his words.

    This is a must read book.
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  • Katarina
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wat de middeleeuwen met de vrijheid van meningsuiting te maken hebben
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 13, 2019
    Zoals altijd weer vlot geschreven, met de nodige scherpte en humor. Het is in feite een soort verslag, of een essay zoals de schrijver het zelf noemt, van een verhaal dat wij in Nederland nauwelijks meekrijgen, namelijk wat er aan de hand is in de universiteiten van Amerika en ook Canada, waar het gaat om het inperken van de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Stuitend, en ook een waarschuwing voor ons in Nederland. Ook heel mooi uiteengezet waarom de studie van de middeleeuwen zo cruciaal is. Weer heel goed geschreven, en graag gelezen.
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  • Ace Rimmer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The surest way to destroy a people is to obliterate their history.
    Reviewed in Australia on October 27, 2019
    Those were the words of George Orwell, who spent decades within the left side of politics.
    This essay is short but vital to understanding the threat posed to the future of society by the "tenured revolutionaries" that infest the free world's education and popular culture. They have given up on the usual revolutionary activities like murder, protest and terrorism like they used to (Bernadette Dorn, the SDS and Weather Underground are examples) and now seek to end civilization via young and impressionable students doing their dirty work after years of indoctrination. Joseph Goebles stated that "A lie told often enough and loud enough is accepted as the truth" and the current crop of Globalist Socialists take this as a duty statement. They have purged any and all dissent from the groupthink that is education today. Now the very hint of independent thought on any subject, even science and maths, that does not pay homage to the cause that the left are using to bludgeon the society that provides for them is censured.
    This brings me to the revision that is now being conceived as history.
    In 1853 the middle ages got a makeover as the "Dark Ages".
    This period, before the Renaissance layed the groundwork for the free, tolerant and prosperous society that people in the rest of the world risked their lives to join.
    Now all that is good about our history is being purged in favour of a narrative that our society was and is inherently evil and any enemy or alternative is not only good but superior.
    If our history is erased and replaced with the lie of White Guilt and the barbarity of systems like Islam, Socialism, and others is erased or justified for its opposition to civilization generations will grow up ashamed of our society.
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  • ian t
    5.0 out of 5 stars Why the Middle Ages are important
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2019
    Anyone hoping for a mini-version of 'Dangerous' by Milo-the-funny-conservative will be disappointed here. 'Middle Rages' is not a barrel of politically-incorrect laughs, though it is shot through with Milo's characteristic wit and invention. When he turns his mind to it, Yiannopoulos is a top-class investigative reporter: bold, thorough, leaving no stone unturned - in short, the kind of thing that no longer exists in the so-called 'mainstream'. 'Middle Rages' is a monograph of uncommon excellent journalism.

    I ended up reading this little book after coming across an article by a professor of medieval studies at Oxford University, in which she asked whether maybe the fire damage at Notre Dame should be left the way it is, as a symbol of the destructiveness and ecocide which she clearly considers to be the hallmark of western civilisation. Gone is the Oxford which I attended 45 years ago. Then, to a degree at least, it actually encouraged higher learning and the pursuit of knowledge. Nowadays, there is not even pretence, as it shamelessly promotes social engineering, opinion-shaping, social justice, and self-flagellation for being part of western civilisation. All of which are the main meat of what is examined in some depth in 'Middle Rages'.

    'Medieval history' sounds like a byway on the royal road of humanity - not to mention a certain cure for insomnia. Milo vividly points out how wrong this is, and how focal to the west the Middle Ages are. Western civilisation's self-identity, as the book puts it, is intimately tied up with the Middle Ages. Academics infused with notions of identity politics would have us revise, rewrite even, this history in the context of race-and-gender politics. This is the battlefield which 'Middle Rages' explores. Our politically right-on medieval academics embark on a crusade against one of their number who refuses to play the game, Rachel Fulton Brown. The book details a chilling litany of smearing, deriding, reputation-and-career destroying dirty tricks employed by the new medievalists. Such tactics seem typical hallmarks of the warfare waged by the politically correct against anyone who dares to speak out as a heretic. Fulton Brown displays courage and a cool head in the face of the vicious onslaught; good on her.

    All in all, 'Middle Rages' is an excellent if unsettling read on a surprisingly significant subject. Thanks, Milo.
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  • matthias
    5.0 out of 5 stars tiny book but important story
    Reviewed in Germany on November 12, 2019
    Reads a little bit like investigative journalism.
    The story is about how the studies of middle ages in general and particularly a chicago professor got under attack by use of very questionable tactics. The author also explains the significance of this area of studies.
  • Scott Osmond
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Fight That Matters
    Reviewed in Australia on June 1, 2019
    A valuable essay. If you control the past you control the present. If you control the present you control the future. Sjw's have gained control of many of the heights of academia now it's medieval studies tern. This essay covers the attack vecter, the actors involved and the tactics used to attack an accomplished professor in the field. Sadly the cowerdice of her colleagues or her institution came as no surprise. This fight matters. The western world, like it or not, is built on foundations of Christianity. By attacking medieval studies sjw crybullies are attempting to undermine the very fabric of civilisation. From standards of proof, believe all women, to freedom of religion, Israel Folau, to abstracts of fairness that aren't defined and who's goals are ever shifting, from academic freedom and inquiry to freedom of association and speech the sjw is burning down hundreds of years of standards that protect the vulnerable and make the west a place worth living. To steal a comment I saw on the web, when the taxpayer becomes tired of funding this nonsense we will be told it's because of anti-intellectualism.
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