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Article: Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands. By Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. 256. $34.95.)
As advertised in the title, this book attempts to highlight the ties between medieval culture and the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, specialists in early modern Europe and Mexican American history, respectively, combined their expertise to trace the medieval heritage and influences on the Borderlands history, traditions, and general culture. According to the authors' main argument, "the zone of mixed Anglo and Hispanic culture extending north from the ...