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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
Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the
central theme of the ethics of medievalism. Ethics in post-medieval
responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume.
The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of
reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the
production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become
inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities,
and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism.
The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they
concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially
incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use
of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda,
disjuncturesfrom medieval literature to medievalist film in
portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror
films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism
in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred
Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval
source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole
invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues
as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those
choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the
world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman,
Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa
Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley,
Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley,
Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L.
Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.
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.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with
business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate
culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with
escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the
present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore
precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted,
appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval
interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book,
contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing
specific case studies with broader investigations of the
discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's
racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the
treatment of womenin medievalist film. The book also includes a
spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the
topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert,
Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnnFitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan,
Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent
Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J.
Toswell, J. Ruben Valdes Miyares
Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to
today's computer games. As medievalism is refracted through new
media, it is often radically transformed. Yet it inevitably retains
at least some common denominators with more traditional responses
to the middle ages. This latest volume of Studies inMedievalism
explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games,
examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging
from the sovereign ethics of empire in Star Wars to gender identity
in on-line role playing. Medievalism in more conventional venues is
also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to
nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and
extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each
article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further
testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of
medievalism. CONTRIBUTORS: ALICIA C. MONTOYA, ALBERT D. PIONKE,
GRETCHENKREAHLING MCKAY, CHENE HEADY, BRUCE C. BRASINGTON, STEFANO
MENGOZZI, CAROL L. ROBINSON, OLIVER M. TRAXEL, AMY S. KAUFMAN,
BRENT MOBERLY, KEVIN MOBERLY, LAURYN S. MAYER
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