U.S. presidential candidates could get medieval with 'indirect aggression' debate tactics
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to square off in a series of presidential debates, the candidates and their running mates could go medieval on their opponents by using a rhetorical technique that dates back to Nordic and Germanic legends of the Middle Ages, says a scholar of medieval literature.