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This book examines public discussions around France's four most
prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and
July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry,
Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans. These
were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French
monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in
post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise
political influence. This book explores continuities and variations
in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and
politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early
modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French
monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles.
Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political
aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the
most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how the
Middle Ages have been subsequently deployed for political ends. The
six essays in the first section directly address that concern with
regard to Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges's contemporaneous
responses to the 1871 Commune; the hypocrisy of the Robinhood App's
invocation of their namesake; misunderstood parallels and
differences between the Covid-19 pandemic and medieval plagues;
Peter Gill's reworking of a major medieval Mystery play in his 2001
The York Realist; celebrations of medieval monks by the American
alt-right; and medieval references in twenty-first-century novels
by the American neo-Nazi Harold A. Covington. The approaches and
conclusions of those essays are then tested in the second section's
seven articles as they examine widely discredited alt-right claims
that strong kings ruled medieval Finland; Norse medievalism in WWI
British and German propaganda; post-war Black appropriation of
white jousting tournaments in the Antebellum South; early American
references to the Merovingian Dynasty; Rudyard Kipling's deployment
of the Middle Ages to defend his beliefs; the reframing of St.
Anthony by Agustina Bessa-Luis's 1973 biography of him; and
post-medieval Portuguese reworkings of the Goat-Foot-Lady and other
medieval legends.
This book examines public discussions around France's four most
prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and
July Monarchy: the duchesse d'Angouleme, the duchesse de Berry,
Queen of the French Marie-Amelie, and Adelaide d'Orleans. These
were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French
monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in
post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise
political influence. This book explores continuities and variations
in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and
politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early
modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French
monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles.
This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and
exchange through the concept of "memory box". Ideas of
displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through
case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland
and France to the American colonies. The authors develop an
understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are
involved in the process of making and disputing memory - but which,
simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over
space and time. This book emphasises "memory box" as an idea that
allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in
conjunction with cultural memory.
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