The twenty-six essays in this volume examine the process of
creating the Middle Ages. In doing so, they honour Leslie Workman,
who has led the revival of the study of medievalism in the past two
generations, and leads this sub-discipline towards the
comprehensiveness that Lord Acton as early as 1859 had promised:
'Two great principles divide the world, and contend for the
mastery: antiquity and the Middle Ages. These are the two
civilizations that have preceded us, the two elements of which ours
is composed. All political as well as religious questions reduce
themselves practically to this. This is the great dualism that runs
through our society. While using differnt approaches and discussing
topics in a variety of specialised fields, the contributions
clearly centre on negotiating the reception of medieval culture in
the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary periods, thus presenting
a broad and representative picture of current research in
medievalism. Contributors include: Tabula Gratulatoria (Leslie
Workman); Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, 'Medievalism in the Modern
World: Introductory Perspectives'; Theresa Ann Sears, 'The Anxiety
of Authority and Medievalizing the New World'; Richard Osberg,
'Humanist Allusions and Medieval Themes: The Receyving of Queen
Anne, London, 1533'; John Simons, 'Christopher Middleton and
Elizabethan Medievalism'; Bernard Rosenthal, 'Medievalism and the
Salem Witch Trials'; Clare Simmons, 'Absent Presence: The
Romantic-Era Magna Charta and the English Constitution'; R.J.
Smith, 'The Swanscombe Legend and the Historiography of Kentish
Gavelkind'; David Barclay, 'Representing the Middle Ages: Court
Festivals in Nineteenth-Century Prussia'; Ulrich Muller,
'Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles? Walther von der Vogelweide,
Hoffman von Fallersleben and the Song of the Germans: Medievalism,
Nationalism and/or Racism'; Roger Simpson, 'St. George and the
Pendragon'; Tom Shippey, 'The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok: A Study
in Sensibilities'; Alice Chandler, 'Carlyle and the Medievalism of
the North'; Werner Wunderlich, 'Medieval Images: Joseph Viktor von
Scheffel's Ekkehard and St. Gall'; Felicia Bonaparte, 'The
(Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the (Re)Formation of Art: The
Medieval Paradigm that Frames The Picture of Dorian Gray'; William
Calin, 'Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Phillips' Paolo and
Francesca; Kathleen Verduin, 'Medievalism, Classicism, and the
Fiction of E.M. Forster; William D. Paden, 'Reconstructing the
Middle Ages: The Monk's Sermon in The Seventh Seal; Rosemary Welsh,
'Theorizing Medievalism: The Case of Gone with the Wind; Gwendolyn
Morgan, 'Gnosticism, the Middle Ages, and the Search for
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