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This book provides many fresh perspectives on why and how the Middle Ages continue to matter so much in the 21st century. It is therefore as much about recent cultural and political history as it is about medieval history and medieval literature. The introduction provides a long overview of medievalism from the 14th to the 21st centuries.
List of contents
- 1: Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones: Introduction: The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first-century Perspectives
- Part One: Medievalism in Politics and Histories
- 2: Bruce Holsinger: Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism
- 3: Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly, and Kath Stevenson: 'The North Remembers': The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture
- 4: Patrick Geary: Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
- 5: Andrew Lynch: War, Church, Empire, and the Medieval in British Histories for Children
- Part Two: Practising Medievalism
- 6: Felicitas Hoppe: 'Adventure? What is that?' On Iwein
- 7: James Robinson: Saints' Cults and Celebrity
- 8: Graham Coatman: Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward, and the Playful
- 9: Fani Gargova: Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens
- 10: Chris Jones: Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World
- 11: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn: Forging 'Medieval' Identities: Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
- Part Three: Medievalism in Literature and Culture
- 12: Elizabeth Robertson: Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies
- 13: Conor McCarthy: Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Táin
- 14: Bettina Bildhauer: Visuality, Violence, and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story
- 15: Carolyn Dinshaw: Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making
- 16: Roland Betancourt: The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine
About the author
Bettina Bildhauer works on medieval German literature and culture in a European context, especially on material things, blood, monstrosity, bodies, gender and the limits of the human. Her work on medievalist film has been published in Filming the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2011), and The Middle Ages on Film, an essay collection co-edited with Anke Bernau (Manchester University Press 2009).
Chris Jones teaches medieval and medievalist literature at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely in these fields, including the critically acclaimed Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (OUP, 2006).
Summary
This book provides many fresh perspectives on why and how the Middle Ages continue to matter so much in the 21st century. It is therefore as much about recent cultural and political history as it is about medieval history and medieval literature. The introduction provides a long overview of medievalism from the 14th to the 21st centuries.
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Elizabeth Robertson's chapter 'Chaucer's and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies'...unveils the heretofore overlooked influence of Chaucer's representation of the daisy on Wordsworth's poetry.
