Studies in Medievalism XII - Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages

Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

List of contents

Arthurian Melodrama, Chaucerian Spectacle, and the Waywardness of Cinematic Pastiche in First Knight and A Knight's Tale - Nickolas Haydock
Modern Mystics, Medieval Saints - Gwendolyn Morgan
Seeking the Human Image in The Advocate - William Woods
Harold in Normandy: History and Romance - Carl Hammer
The Day of a Thousand Years: Winchester's 1901 Commemoration of Alfred the Great - Joanne Parker
Eric Brighteyes: Rider Haggard rewrites the Sagas - Jona Hammer
'Biddeth Peres Ploughman go to his werk': Appropriation of Piers Plowman in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Paul Hardwick
What Tales of a Wayside Inn tells us about Longfellow and about Chaucer - William Calin
Bad Baronets and the Curse of Medievalism - Clare A Simmons
'The Bony Grasping Hand': Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Views on Medieval Canon Law - Bruce Brasington

About the author

Tom Shippey, Martin Arnold

Product details

• Authors: tom Shippey
• Assisted by: Martin Arnold (Editor), tom Shippey (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2003
• EAN: 9780859917728
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-772-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Studies in Medievalism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet