Medieval Imagery in Today's Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-942401-40-7
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 107 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Past Imperfect

Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity, especially by writers and politicians on the far right. Both characterizations – the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation – are mined and studied in this book. Daniel Wollenberg examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wollenberg, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction1. Getting Political 
2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe 
3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins 
4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism 
Postscript: The Eternal Return of the Medieval 
Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Wollenberg, Daniel
Daniel Wollenberg is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tampa, specializing in medieval literature and culture. He has recently published articles on political medievalism on the far right in the journal postmedieval.