Medievalism

A Manifesto
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-942401-02-5
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 107 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 198 g

Reihe: Past Imperfect

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Utz, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What’s Love Got To Do With It? Our Middle Ages, Ourselves

Don’t Know Much About the Middle Ages? Toward Flat(ter) Futures of Engagement

Intervention One: Residual Medievalisms in Eastern Bavaria

Intervention Two: Race and Medievalism at Atlanta’s Rhodes Hall

Intervention Three: Medievalism, Religion, and Temporality

Manifesto: Six (Not So) Little Medievalisms

Über Autor(innen)

Utz, Richard
Richard Utz is chair and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.