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Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with
business and finance. In the wake of the many passionate responses
to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the
role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays,
Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted
contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly
dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery
and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have
variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and
repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And
Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on
the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find
other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the
gendering of Percy's Reliques, the Romantic Pre-Reformation in
Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, renovation and
resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History",
salvation in the Commedia references of Rodin's Gates of Hell, film
theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic
Beowulf, and American containment culture in medievalist
comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional
media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns
about the motives and methods behind this field and many others
inacademia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh,
Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman,
Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons,
Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.
An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core
of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.
Following on from previous issues, this volume continues to explore
definitions of neomedievalism and its relationship to traditional
medievalism. In four essays that open the volume, Harry Brown,
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, and Nils Holger Petersen
underscore the elusive nature of distinctions between the two
fields, particularly when assessing contemporary film, music, and
electronic media. Seven articles then test the need for these
distinctions, on subject matter ranging from Sir Walter Scott as a
historian; M. E. Braddon's gendered medievalism; friendship models
in Mary Elizabeth Haweis's Chaucer for Children; Jorge Luis
Borges's Northern interests; medieval practices in Ellis Peters's
Cadfael novels; innovative exhibits at the Museum of
Wolframs-Eschenbach; and Celtic patterns in modern tattoos. Theory
and practice are thus juxtaposed once again in a volume that is
certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest
growing areas of academia. Contributors: Harry Brown, KellyAnn
Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, Nils Holger Petersen, Mark B.
Spencer, Megan L. Morris, Karla Knutson, Vladimir Brljak, Alan T.
Gaylord, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Maggie M. Williams
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