Simmons Medievalism and the Quest for the Real Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-78272-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Medievalism, the later reception of the Middle Ages, has been used by many writers, not just during the Victorian period but from the Renaissance to the present, as a means of commenting on their own societies and systems of values. Until recently, this self-interest was used to distinguish between Medievalism, a selective, often romanticised, view of the past, and medieval studies, with its quest for an authentic Middle Ages. The essays in this collection suggest that the search for knowledge of a "real" Middle Ages has always been a problematic one, and that the vitality of the vision of Medievalism is demonstrated by its constant adaption to current concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simmons, Clare A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction/review of current scholarship, Clare A. Simmons; Samuel Daniel's defense of Medievalism, Kelly Quinn; chivalry and romance in the 18th century - Richard Hurde and the disenchantment of the "Faerie Queene", Kristine Louise Haugen; waging battle - Ashford V. Thornton, Ivanhoe, and legal violence, Mark Schoenfield; Joan of Arc in the 1820s, Sarah Hibberd; the "Truth" about the Middle Ages - "La Revue dex Deux Mondes" and late 19th century Medievalism, Elizabeth Emery; medieval religion, Victorian homosexualities, Frederick S. Roden; heraldry and Red Hats - linguistic skepticism and Chesterton's revision of Ruskian medievalism, Chene Heady; the return of the king - medievalism and the politics of nostalgia in the Mythopoetic Men's Movement, Susan Aronstein.