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An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry"
has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the
most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define,
chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon,
constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance
princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern
civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book
explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were
conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses
of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine
concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical
assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a
shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating
the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters
combine attention to documentary evidence with what material
culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and
the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was
renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic
regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by
considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and
Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the
University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research
Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University.
Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling,
Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary
Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie Stevenson
An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry"
has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the
most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define,
chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon,
constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance
princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern
civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book
explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were
conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses
of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine
concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical
assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a
shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating
the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters
combine attention to documentary evidence with what material
culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and
the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was
renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic
regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by
considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and
Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the
University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research
Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University.
Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling,
Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary
Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie Stevenson
The first of a two-volume examination of medievalism and academic
scholarship, this collection is divided into four sections:
Canonizing Chaucer, Antiquarian loomings, Medievalism, medieval
studies, and Medieval studies at the millennium. Medievalism, the
"continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal
medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the
middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground
between artisticand popular constructions of the middle ages and
the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the
genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the
erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed
perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated
female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval
invention) in the face of technological assault; the politics of
the nineteenth-century academy (F.W. Furnival and others); the
editorial practice of Sidney Lanier; and the cultural canonization
of Chaucer. Contributors: DAVID O. MATTHEWS, STEVE ELLIS, ANTONIA
WARD, GRAHAM PARRY, MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS, ANNA SMOL, DAVID ALLAN,
MATILDE MATEO, MARYA DEVOTO, ULRIKE WIETHAUS, STEPHEN STEELE, JAMES
KENNEDY, WILLIAM CALIN, JESSE D. HURLBUT, JOAN GRENIER-WINTHER,
WILLIAM PADEN
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