The Legitimacy of the Middle AgesThis collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern shouldindeed mustreckon with the medieval. Offering a much needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age" as a complete departure from the Middle Ages, these essays forcefully show that thinkers from Adorno to iek have repeatedly drawn from medieval sources to theorize modernity. To forget the medieval, or to