PostScript to the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Studies Through the Name of the RoseMore than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose remains a popular novel among medievalists and non medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the Franciscan Spiritualist controversy, provides an excellent point of entry to the cultural, philosophical, and theological milieu of fourteenth century