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"Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material and political domains reveal that the medieval period has long provided a fund of images and ideas that have been vital to defining 'the modern'. Bringing together local, national and global examples and tracing medievalism's unpredictable course from early modern poetry to contemporary digital culture, this authoritative Companion offers a panoramic view of the historical, aesthetic, ideological and conceptual dimensions of this phenomenon. It showcases a range of critical positions and approaches to discussing medievalism, from more 'traditional' historicist and close-reading practices through to theoretically engaged methods. It also acquaints readers with key terms and provides them with a sophisticated conceptual vocabulary for discussing the medieval afterlife in the modern"--
Medievalism. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Medievalism in literature. --- Medievalism in art. --- Medievalism --- Middle Ages in motion pictures. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Computer games. --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation médiévale --- Médiévisme dans la littérature --- Moyen Age au cinéma --- Aspect social --- Aspect politique --- Medievalism in art --- Médiévisme dans l'art --- Computer games --- Jeux vidéo --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation médiévale --- Médiévisme dans la littérature --- Médiévisme dans l'art --- Moyen Age au cinéma --- Jeux vidéo --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology --- Politics --- Art --- Literature --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe
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The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about the medieval but also about modernity. Tracing the development and permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody, irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in English Literaturesat the University of Wollongong.
Literature, Medieval --- Humor in literature. --- History and criticism.
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This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects private human lives caught up in public and political situations. The essays, many of them influenced by the burgeoning field of study in the history of emotions, examine the often unconsidered effects of war - on the individual and on the commune - as revealed in the study of well-known texts such as 'Beowulf', 'Piers Plowman', Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur', and Chaucer?s 'Troilus and Criseyde', as well as other lesser-known works that mirror the concerns of the society in which they were conceived. These latter range from the twelfth-century 'chansons' of the Crusades, through the fifteenth-century French and English political works of Alain Chartier, to the twentieth-century anti-war satirical films of Mario Monicelli.
Literature --- Literature, Medieval --- War and literature. --- War and society. --- War in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Warfare. --- emotion. --- gender. --- history of emotions. --- medieval literature. --- medieval warfare. --- medievalism. --- premodern literature. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature and war --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Social aspects --- Literature, Medieval. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- War in literature --- History and criticism
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This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference constituted a landmark in the study of medievalism: the historical discipline, now in full bloom, that investigates the ways in which the thousand-year period between 500 and 1500 was, and continues to be, presented, reconstructed, and imagined in successive eras. The book opens with a substantial bibliography drawn from all of its components, followed by the seven keynote lectures and ninety-three shorter texts - abstracts of the individual conference papers - organized along eight thematic pathways, which together provide a vivid image of the current state of the field.
History --- medievalism --- historiography --- medieval civilisation --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation médiévale --- Historiographie
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