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Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant
discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This
latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores
definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor.
In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to
determine precisely how tocharacterize the subjects of study, their
relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and
their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a
matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then
tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics
include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years
in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Dore's
mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of
music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic
representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love
tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passionand The.Powerbook;
Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates
of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de
Voragine's Golden Legend. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell,Aida Audeh,
Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson,
Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E.L.
Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica
Ortenberg West-Harling
The difficult and nuanced issue of discrimination - race, gender,
ethicity, religion - is the focus of this volume. Discrimination
has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely
been weaponized as thoroughly and publicly as in recent exchanges.
The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that
development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has
taken in medievalism (studies) relative to race, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, and ethnicity. These papers thus inform many
of the subsequent chapters, which address a wide variety of aspects
of medievalism, showing how many cultural areas it touches upon.
Subjects include Evelyn Underhill's literary interest in the Arts
and Crafts Movement; the Anchoresses of the filmmaker Chris Newby
and novelist RobynCadwallader; cinematic battle orations;
contemporary representations of Viking helmet horns; modern
board-game culture; and Vincent Van Gogh's Studio of the South. The
volume also includes a transcription and contextualization ofthe
celebrated scholar Helen Waddell's notes on medieval texts. KARL
FUGELSO is Professor of Art History at Towson University.
Contributors: Carla Arnell, Aida Audeh, Peter Burkholder,
Christopher Caldiero,Michael Evans, Jennifer FitzGerald, Jonathan
Godsall, Angus J. Kennedy, Nadia Margolis, Lauryn Mayer, Timothy S.
Miller, Tison Pugh, Richard Utz, Kim Wilkins, Karen A. Winstead,
Helen Young
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