TY - BOOK ID - 14025164 TI - The Cambridge companion to medievalism PY - 2016 SN - 9781107086715 9781107451650 9781316091708 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Medievalism. KW - Civilization, Medieval. KW - Medievalism in literature. KW - Medievalism in art. KW - Medievalism KW - Middle Ages in motion pictures. KW - Social aspects. KW - Political aspects. KW - Computer games. KW - Médiévisme KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - Médiévisme dans la littérature KW - Moyen Age au cinéma KW - Aspect social KW - Aspect politique KW - Medievalism in art KW - Médiévisme dans l'art KW - Computer games KW - Jeux vidéo KW - Médiévisme KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - Médiévisme dans la littérature KW - Médiévisme dans l'art KW - Moyen Age au cinéma KW - Jeux vidéo KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology KW - Politics KW - Art KW - Literature KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14025164 AB - "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"-- ER -