Studies in Medievalism XXIX - Politics and Medievalism (Studies)

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages,

List of contents

Preface - Karl Fugelso
I: Essays on Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
Historical Malapropism and the Medieval Blood Libel in American Politics - Esther Cuenca
Putin's Medieval Weapons in the War against Ukraine - Sean Griffin
The Battle of Tours and the US Southern Border - Daniel Wollenberg
Medievalism, Brexit, and the Myth of Nations - Andrew B.R. Elliott
An Arthur for the Brexit Era: Joe Cornish's The Kid Who Would be King - Christopher Jensen
II: Other Responses to Medievalism
Angle-ing for Arthur: Erasing the Welsh in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - Mary Behrman
Chasing Freyja: Rape, Immigration, and the Medieval in Alt-Right Discourse - Ali Frauman
"Things painted on the coarse canvas": Political Polemic in Jean-Paul Laurens's Portrait of the Child Emperor Honorius - Laura E. Cochrane
Longfellow and Old English - Jane Toswell
Archaeology and Medievalism at Julian of Norwich's Anchorite Cell - Victoria Yuskaitis
A Revelation of Love: Christianity, Julian of Norwich, and Medieval Pity in the Harry Potter Series - Laura Varnam
In the Beginning Was the Word: How Medieval Text Became Fantasy Maps - Anna Fore Waymack and John Wyatt Greenlee
Objectivity, Impossibility, and Laughter in Doctor Who's "Robot of Sherwood" - Usha Vishnuvajjala
Sonic Medievalism, World Building, and Cultural Identity in Fantasy Video Games - James Cook

About the author

Karl Fugelso

Summary

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages,

Product details

• Authors: Karl Fugelso
• Assisted by: Karl Fugelso (Editor), Karl (Author) Fugelso (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781843845560
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-556-0
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Studies in Medievalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism