Visions and Ruins - Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages

This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.

Sommario

Introduction
1 Ruins and wonders: the politics of cultural memory in and of early medieval England
2 Queen Eleanor and her crosses: trauma and memory, medieval and modern
3 Medievalist double consciousness and the production of difference: medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy
4 The language of gesture: untimely bodies and contemporary performance
Afterword: migrations
Index

Info autore

Joshua Davies is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London

Riassunto

This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joshua Davies, Joshua (Lecturer in Medieval Literature At Davies, Joshua (Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London) Davies
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781526125934
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2593-4
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, POETRY / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classic and pre-20th century poetry