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Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental
matters. Ecoconcerns and ecocriticism are a rising trend in
medievalism studies, and form a major focus of this collection.
Topics under discussion in the first part of the volume include
figurations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism;
environmental medievalism in Sidney Lanier's Southern chivalry;
nostalgia and loss in T.H. White's "forest sauvage"; and green
medievalism in J.R.R. Tolkien's elven realms. The eleven subsequent
articles continue to take in such themes more tangentially, testing
and buillding on the methods and conclusions of the first part.
Their subjects include John Aubrey's Middle Ages; medieval
charter-horns in early modern England;
nineteenth-centuryreimaginings of Chaucer's Griselda; Dante's
influence on Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream";
multi-layered medievalisms in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice
and Fire; (coopted) feminism via medievalism inDisney's Maleficent;
(neo)medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade; cosmopolitan anxieties
and national identity in Netflix's Marco Polo; mapping Everealm in
The Quest; undergraduate perceptions ofthe "medieval" and the
"Middle Ages"; and medievalism in the prosopopeia and corpsepaint
of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Karl Fugelso is Professor of
Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Contributors: Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Daniel Helbert, Ann F. Howey,
Carol Jamison, Ann M. Martinez, Kara L. McShane, Lisa Myers, Elan
Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant,
Dean Swinford, Renee Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of
scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those
who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its
cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about
them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or
theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume
aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the
problematic yet commonly accepted vocabulary used in Medievalism
Studies. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field,
define and exemplify in a lively and accessible style the essential
terms used when speaking of the later reception of medieval
culture. The terms: Archive, Authenticity, Authority, Christianity,
Co-disciplinarity, Continuity, Feast, Genealogy, Gesture, Gothic,
Heresy, Humor, Lingua, Love, Memory, Middle, Modernity, Monument,
Myth, Play, Presentism, Primitive, Purity, Reenactment, Resonance,
Simulacrum, Spectacle, Transfer, Trauma, Troubadour Elizabeth Emery
is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State
University (Montclair, NJ, USA); Richard Utz is Chair and Professor
of Medievalism Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and
Communication at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA, USA). Contributors:
Nadia Altschul, Martin Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin,
Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer, Louise D'Arcens,
Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferre, Matthew Fisher, Karl
Fugelso, Jonathan Hsy, Amy S. Kaufman, Nadia Margolis, David
Matthews,Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberly, Kevin Moberly, Gwendolyn
Morgan, Laura Morowitz, Kevin D. Murphy, Nils Holger Petersen, Lisa
Reilly, Edward Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Juanita Feros Ruys, Tom
Shippey, Clare A. Simmons, Zrinka Stahuljak, M. Jane Toswell,
Richard Utz, Angela Jane Weisl.
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this
fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety
of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these
texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities
present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a
contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also
addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval
literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television,
games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan,
this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval
literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval
literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing
press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first
century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction
for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also
acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval
literature can be developed.
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this
fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety
of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these
texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities
present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a
contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also
addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval
literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television,
games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan,
this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval
literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval
literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing
press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first
century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction
for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also
acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval
literature can be developed.
Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used
gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of
romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet
remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions.
Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important
works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore
and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex
treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle
English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions.
Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works,
examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and
showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects
addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and
Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by
male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge
the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the
speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the
genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the
stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale
of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis
visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at
Wittenberg University, Ohio.
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's
treatment of it. Issues relating to the male characters and the
construction of masculinities in Chaucer's masterpiece of love
found and love lost are explored here. Collectively the essays
address the question of what it means to be a man in theMiddle
Ages, what constitutes masculinity in this era, and how such
masculinities are culturally constructed; they seek to advance
scholarly understanding of the themes, characters, and actions of
Troilus and Criseyde through thehermeneutics of medieval and modern
concepts of manliness. Throughout, they argue that Troilus and the
other characters, including Criseyde, are subject to multiple and
conflicting interpretations, especially in regard to the
intersections of their genders with their sexual performances and
their conflicted relationships to generic expectations for gendered
conduct. Contributors: JOHN M. BOWERS, MICHAEL CALABRESE, HOLLY A.
CROCKER, KATE KOPPELMAN,MOLLY MARTIN, MARCIA SMITH MARZEC, GRETCHEN
MIESZKOWSKI, JAMES J. PAXSON, TISON PUGH, R. ALLEN SHOAF, ROBERT S.
STURGES, ANGELA JANE WEISL, RICHARD ZEIKOWITZ
To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas of contestation, constructions that did and still do create and interrogate notions of gender roles, areas of power, areas of disability. For example, chastity is an apparent given for both positions, but the chastity involved may have a number of possible cultural meanings or uses. The articles in Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages address many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions; the body and what it means to make it visible, whether in admiration, torture, or martyrdom; issues of physicality and abjection; creations of literary voice for women who write or create situations for them to be written about. A top-notch group of female scholars examines the meanings behind widowhood and virginity both individually and in relation to each other. The focus on both positions in the same volume makes Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages an unprecedented work.
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