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Studies in Medievalism XXX - Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II (Hardcover)
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Studies in Medievalism XXX - Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medievalism
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Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
Middle Ages, This volume continues the theme of its predecessor,
addressing how the Middle Ages have been invoked to score political
points, particularly with reference to the rise of populism fueled
by recent recessions and a pandemic. The nine essays in the first
portion of the volume directly address political medievalism in
Tariq Ali's 2005 novel on Mideast instability, A Sultan in Palermo;
attempts by twentieth-century Czech politicians to anchor their
causes in the fifteenth-century Czech hero Petr Chelcicky;
far-right deployment of Robin Hood memes to slander Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Barack Obama; the ways Rory Mullarkey's 2017 play Saint
George and the Dragon comments onEnglish national identity relative
to Brexit; how national stereotypes have come into play amid
cross-channel reporting on Brexit; nationalism in the medievalizing
German monument to their fallen at the 1942 Battle of El
Alamein;the English-speaking world's reception of Anthony Munday's
1589 book on conduct, Palmendos; nationalism in the
self-characterization of two contemporary British Pagan movements;
and how various communities in the television series Game of
Thrones comment on medieval and/or contemporary nations. Nor are
politics entirely absent from the final four articles in the
volume, as they examine attempts to promote such particular agendas
as toxic masculinity in Game of Thrones; misogyno-feminism there
and in the George R.R. Martin book series on which the television
program is based, A Song of Ice and Fire; the potential for
audience self-realization amid the tension between the individual
and the collective in The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley's 2018
adaptation of Beowulf; and ideal individual and collective behavior
as modeled in the Ringling Brothers' 1912-13 spectacles about Joan
of Arc.
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