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Studies in Medievalism XI - Appropriating the Middle Ages: Scholarship, Politics, Fraud (Hardcover)
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Studies in Medievalism XI - Appropriating the Middle Ages: Scholarship, Politics, Fraud (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medievalism
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Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to
modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central
importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary
cultural world. The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and
a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and
politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient
tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their
own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a
number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and
Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization
of the medieval WelshMabinogion by the wife of an English
ironmaster. Other articles consider the involvement of scholarship
with national and professional self-definition, whether in
Renaissance Holland or Victorian Britain. And who "discovered"
America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson? This is an issue of
vital importance to many 19th-century Americans, but one created
and determined entirely by scholarship. Simple commercial motives
for exploiting the middle ages are also represented, whether
straightforward forgery for sale, or the giant modern industry of
tourism. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English
at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at
University College, Scarborough. Contributors: SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH,
ROLF H. BREMMER JR, BETSY BOWDEN, WERNER WUNDERLICH, JUDITH
JOHNSTON, GERALDINE BARNES, RICHARD UTZ, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, STEVE
WATSON.
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