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Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to
modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central
importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary
cultural world. The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and
a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and
politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient
tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their
own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a
number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and
Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization
of the medieval WelshMabinogion by the wife of an English
ironmaster. Other articles consider the involvement of scholarship
with national and professional self-definition, whether in
Renaissance Holland or Victorian Britain. And who "discovered"
America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson? This is an issue of
vital importance to many 19th-century Americans, but one created
and determined entirely by scholarship. Simple commercial motives
for exploiting the middle ages are also represented, whether
straightforward forgery for sale, or the giant modern industry of
tourism. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English
at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at
University College, Scarborough. Contributors: SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH,
ROLF H. BREMMER JR, BETSY BOWDEN, WERNER WUNDERLICH, JUDITH
JOHNSTON, GERALDINE BARNES, RICHARD UTZ, JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN, STEVE
WATSON.
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.
Since the inclusion of medieval studies in the modern academy,
professional scholars have insisted on distinguishing their work
from extra-academic lovers of medieval culture. Richard Utz
analyzes the semantic, institutional, and sociopolitical history of
the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. He
provides a survey of how scholars' exteriorization of amateur
interest in the medieval past narrowed the epistemological range of
medieval scholarship and how reception studies, feminism, and
postmodernism gradually expanded modern pastist approaches to the
Middle Ages. Utz advances specific examples for reconnecting
investigating scholarly subjects with their subjects of
investigation, and he challenges scholars to make a conscious
effort to engage in public scholarship and explore inclusive
gestures toward the contributions non-academic lovers of the Middle
Ages can offer. His manifesto advocates an active integration of
academic medievalists' work within the many other equally valuable
artistic and sociopolitical partner contexts of reading the
medieval past.
The medieval sermon provides the focus for the first volume of
Disputatio because it often expresses the concerns of various
intellectual milieux, such as the university, Church or court, and
attempts to convey those concerns to other parts of medieval
society. Speculum Sermonis is an anthology of essays about medieval
sermons in the Christian East and West. It aims to reveal precisely
how sermons inform different disciplines (for instance, social and
Church history, literature, musicology) and how the methodologies
of different disciplines inform sermons. Sermons can, for instance,
provide evidence for a reconstruction of medieval liturgy;
reciprocally, the field of liturgiology investigates sermons as one
aspect of Church performance. The volume's title image of the
mirror and the reference to medieval specula convey the idea of
multiple reflections: the sermons' on culture and the disciplines'
on sermons. Because the contributors to Speculum Sermonis come from
a variety of fields, the essays here collectively provide a rich
historical and contemporary academic context for reading the
medieval sermon. In addition to essays from across the fields, a
number of which establish conclusions transcending disciplinary
boundaries, Speculum Sermonis includes an introduction defending
interdisciplinary study of sermons and an authoritative
bibliography covering both primary and secondary resources for
medieval sermons. A unique feature of the volume is the inclusion
of response papers to the essays in each of the sections, in the
spirit of the book series title Disputatio.
The twenty-six essays in this volume examine the process of
creating the Middle Ages. In doing so, they honour Leslie Workman,
who has led the revival of the study of medievalism in the past two
generations, and leads this sub-discipline towards the
comprehensiveness that Lord Acton as early as 1859 had promised:
'Two great principles divide the world, and contend for the
mastery: antiquity and the Middle Ages. These are the two
civilizations that have preceded us, the two elements of which ours
is composed. All political as well as religious questions reduce
themselves practically to this. This is the great dualism that runs
through our society. While using differnt approaches and discussing
topics in a variety of specialised fields, the contributions
clearly centre on negotiating the reception of medieval culture in
the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary periods, thus presenting
a broad and representative picture of current research in
medievalism. Contributors include: Tabula Gratulatoria (Leslie
Workman); Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, 'Medievalism in the Modern
World: Introductory Perspectives'; Theresa Ann Sears, 'The Anxiety
of Authority and Medievalizing the New World'; Richard Osberg,
'Humanist Allusions and Medieval Themes: The Receyving of Queen
Anne, London, 1533'; John Simons, 'Christopher Middleton and
Elizabethan Medievalism'; Bernard Rosenthal, 'Medievalism and the
Salem Witch Trials'; Clare Simmons, 'Absent Presence: The
Romantic-Era Magna Charta and the English Constitution'; R.J.
Smith, 'The Swanscombe Legend and the Historiography of Kentish
Gavelkind'; David Barclay, 'Representing the Middle Ages: Court
Festivals in Nineteenth-Century Prussia'; Ulrich Muller,
'Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles? Walther von der Vogelweide,
Hoffman von Fallersleben and the Song of the Germans: Medievalism,
Nationalism and/or Racism'; Roger Simpson, 'St. George and the
Pendragon'; Tom Shippey, 'The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok: A Study
in Sensibilities'; Alice Chandler, 'Carlyle and the Medievalism of
the North'; Werner Wunderlich, 'Medieval Images: Joseph Viktor von
Scheffel's Ekkehard and St. Gall'; Felicia Bonaparte, 'The
(Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the (Re)Formation of Art: The
Medieval Paradigm that Frames The Picture of Dorian Gray'; William
Calin, 'Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Phillips' Paolo and
Francesca; Kathleen Verduin, 'Medievalism, Classicism, and the
Fiction of E.M. Forster; William D. Paden, 'Reconstructing the
Middle Ages: The Monk's Sermon in The Seventh Seal; Rosemary Welsh,
'Theorizing Medievalism: The Case of Gone with the Wind; Gwendolyn
Morgan, 'Gnosticism, the Middle Ages, and the Search for
Responsibility: Im
Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary
moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in
postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. Bringing together
significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of
the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and
international collection. The volume also effects a critically
celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political
possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts
of "postmodern" scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late
middle ages to the contemporary moment, and together they indicate,
broadly, what is happening both in postmodern studies and studies
in medievalism. The fourteen essays of the collection are organized
into four sections, Music (including Pavel Chinizul, Negru Voda,
Arvo Part), Art and Architecture (contemporary architecture, Robert
Rauschenberg and more), Cinema (Tolkien, Bresson, Braveheart among
the matters discussed), and Literature (including Sir John
Mandeville, Marco Polo, Marvel, Naomi Mitchison). Contributors:
FLORIN CURTA, PAUL MURPHY, LEOPOLD BRAUNEISS, JOHN M. GANIM, KARL
FUGELSO, VERLYN FLIEGER, WILLIAM D. PADEN, BRIAN LEVY, LESLEY
COOTE, A.E. CHRISTA CANITZ, JENNIFER COOLEY, PAUL SMETHURST,
ELENALEVY-NAVAFRO, ANITA OBERMEIER, SYLVIA MITTLER.
The second study of medievalism in Europe shows how the influence
of the middle ages has been manifested itself in various forms,
throughout the modern age, in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden -
and Brazil. How have the middle ages been constructed in modern
European culture? How have these constructions both reflected and
refashioned national and political ideology? What has characterised
the interplay between literary and artisticmedievalism and the rise
of formal medieval studies in the academy? This international
collection addresses medievalism in Germany, France, Scandinavia,
and postcolonial South America. Contributors: RICHARD J. UTZ,
ALBRECHT CLASSEN, OTFRID EHRISMANN, NILS HOLGER PETERSEN, ROBERT E.
BJORK, MARTHA L. MACFARLANE, ADAM KNOBLER, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN,
SUZY BEEMER, WILLIAM CALIN, ROY ROSENSTEIN
Sexueller Missbrauch und sexualisierte Handlungen in padagogischen
Kontexten sind nicht einfach als Perversionen Einzelner abzutun.
Vielmehr ergeben sie sich aus einer Konstellation struktureller und
personaler Faktoren, die mit jeder padagogischen und
sozialpadagogischen Tatigkeit verbunden sind und zueinander in
einem Spannungsverhaltnis stehen. So mussen die
sozial-/padagogischen Akteure als professionelle Praktiker in der
direkten Interaktion von Erziehung und Bildung stets Nahe
herstellen und gleichzeitig Distanz halten. Das Buch beleuchtet aus
verschiedenen disziplinaren Perspektiven, durch welche personalen
und kontextuellen Faktoren die Balance gestort wird, in eine
Sexualisierung der Beziehung umschlagt und sich entlang des
Machtgefalles zwischen Professionellen und ihren Adressaten zu
einem Missbrauch vereinseitigt. Konkrete Massnahmen und
Handlungsempfehlungen weisen Losungsperspektiven zur Pravention
sexuellen Missbrauchs auf."
The autobiography of Richard Utting. "Readers of this book will be
treated to a rollicking ride through Richard's various careers
including the military, the law, broadcasting and service as the
Mayor of a major city." Wayne Martin, Chief Justice of Western
Australia.
The twenty well-known scholars featured in this Festschrift for
William Calin engage in personal reflection about the ways
scholars, writers, musicians, and artists from different periods
have "made" the Middle Ages by exploring it in their own work.
Contributors: Barbara K. Altman, Pam Clements, Elizabeth Emery,
Karl Fugelso, Caroline Jewers, Alicia C. Montoya, Gwendolyn A.
Morgan, E.L. Risden, Nils Holger Petersen, William D. Paden, F.
Regina Psaki, Carol L. Robinson, Roy Rosenstein, Tom Shippey, Jesse
G. Swan, M.J. Toswell, Richard Utz, Kathleen Verduin, Veronica
Ortenberg West-Harling, Gayle Zachmann
Der Kreislauf des Lebens gibt uns Menschen nach wie vor groe Rtsel
auf. Gibt es einen Ursprung, oder war alles immer schon da? Das
All, die Unendlichkeit, die Ewigkeit - sie sind fr unseren Verstand
kaum fabar. Richard Anton Utz stellt sich den groen Fragen der
Menschheit und nhert sich ihnen auf unwissenschaftliche Weise,
wobei er jedoch seine Erkenntnisse sowohl aus den
Naturwissenschaften wie aus der Theologie mit einflieen lt. Kann
die Seele fliegen? Was passiert mit ihr, wenn wir sterben? Worin
unterscheiden sich Diesseits und Jenseits? Mit diesen zentralen
Themen setzt sich Utz logisch argumentierend auseinander. Seine zum
Teil diametralen Aussagen, die er anhand von Modellen und
Gedankenexperimenten verdeutlicht, sollen neue Denkanste geben.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, German-speaking
scholars played a decisive role in founding and shaping the study
of medieval and early modern English language and culture. During
this process, aesthetic and literary enthusiasms were gradually
replaced, first by broadly comparative and then by increasingly
narrow scientistic practices, all confusingly subsumed under the
term 'philology'. Towards 1871, German and Austrian Anglicists were
successful at imposing-- for about 30 years -- many of their
philological discoursive practices on their English-speaking
counterparts by focusing on strict textual criticism, chronology,
historical linguistics, prosody, and literary history. After World
War I, these philological practices were rejected in the U.K. and
the United States because they were 'Made in Germany', but have
remained essential features of German medieval scholarship until
the present day. This book offers a case study of these
foundational developments by investigating the reception of
Geoffrey Chaucer by eminent scholars such as V.A. Huber, W.
Hertzberg, B. ten Brink, J. Zupitza, E. Fluegel, and J. Koch. The
narrative of their nationalist, scientist, and self-fashioning
efforts is complemented by a comprehensive annotated bibliography
of German Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948.
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