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This latest volume of 'Studies in Medievalism' further explores definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor. In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to determine precisely how to characterize the subjects of study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the 'Divine Comedy'; the role of music in Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's 'The Passion' and 'The.Powerbook'; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's 'Golden Legend'. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell, Aida Audeh, Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson, Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

Medievalism. --- Medeltiden --- attityder till --- historia. --- Mittelalter. --- Rezeption. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Médiévisme --- Civilisation moderne --- Influence médiévale --- Charles Dickens. --- Handel's Rodelinda. --- J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. --- John Bale's Reformist Plays. --- King Alfred. --- Medieval Bestiaries. --- Niebelungenlied. --- Revisionist Works. --- Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. --- Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. --- Wagner's Ring Cycle. --- Courtly Love Tradition. --- Divine Comedy. --- Eleanor of Aquitaine. --- Holy Grail. --- Lord of the Rings. --- Middle Ages. --- Music. --- Progress. --- Riddling Tradition. --- Seven Deadly Sins. --- Victorian Spins. --- History --- Research.

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Ecoconcerns and ecocriticism are a rising trend in medievalism studies, and form a major focus of this collection. Topics under discussion in the first part of the volume include figurations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism; environmental medievalism in Sidney Lanier's Southern chivalry; nostalgia and loss in T.H. White's "forest sauvage"; and green medievalism in J.R.R. Tolkien's elven realms.
The eleven subsequent articles continue to take in such themes more tangentially, testing and buillding on the methods and conclusions of the first part. Their subjects include John Aubrey's Middle Ages; medieval charter-horns in early modern England; nineteenth-century reimaginings of Chaucer's Griselda; Dante's influence on Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream";multi-layered medievalisms in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; (coopted) feminism via medievalism in Disney's Maleficent; (neo)medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade; cosmopolitan anxieties and national identity in Netflix's Marco Polo; mapping Everealm in The Quest; undergraduate perceptions of the "medieval" and the "Middle Ages"; and medievalism in the prosopopeia and corpsepaint of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Contributors: Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Daniel Helbert, Ann F. Howey, Carol Jamison, Ann M. Martinez, Kara L. McShane, Lisa Myers, Elan Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant, Dean Swinford, Renée Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.

Middle Ages in popular culture --- Middle Ages in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecology --- Ecology in literature. --- Moyen Age dans la culture populaire --- Moyen Age dans la littérature --- Ecocritique --- Ecologie --- Ecologie dans la littérature --- History. --- Histoire --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Popular culture --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1800-1999 --- Cultural Interpretation. --- Ecomedievalism. --- Environmentalism. --- Literature and Environment. --- Literature. --- Medievalism. --- Middle Ages. --- Modern Interpretation.

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The question of how modernity has influenced medievalism and how medievalism has influenced modernity is the theme of this volume. The opening essays examine the 2001 film Just Visiting's comments on modern anxieties via medievalism; conflations of modernity with both medievalism and the Middle Ages in rewriting sources; the emergence of modernity amid the post-World War I movement The MostNoble Order of Crusaders; António Sardinha's promotion of medievalism as an antidote to modernity; and Mercedes Rubio's medievalism in her feminist commentary on modernity. The eight subsequent articles build on this foundation while discussing remnants of medieval London amid its modern descendant; Michel Houellebecq's critique of medievalism through his 2011 novel La Carte et le territoire; historical authenticity in Michael Morrow's approach to performing medieval music; contemporary concerns in Ford Madox Brown and David Gentleman's murals; medieval Chester in Catherine A.M. Clarkeand Nayan Kulkarni's Hryre (2012); medieval influences on the formation of and debate about modern moral panics; medievalist considerations in modern repurposings of medieval anchorholds; andmedieval sources for Paddy Molloy's Here Be Dragons (2013). The articles thus test the essays' methods and conclusions, even as the essays offer fresh perspectives on the articles.

Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Contributors: Edward Breen, Katherine A. Brown, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Louise D'Arcens, Joshua Davies, John Lance Griffith, Mike Horswell, Pedro Martins, Paddy Molloy, Lisa Nalbone, Sarah Salih, Michelle M. Sauer, James L. Smith

Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Middle Ages. --- Civilization, Modern.. --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Medievalism --- Civilization, Modern.

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

Medievalism. --- Medievalism in motion pictures. --- Medievalism in literature. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Motion pictures --- Cultural Interpretation. --- Film. --- Historical References. --- Literature. --- Medieval Influences. --- Middle Ages. --- Modern World. --- Politics. --- Post-Modern Reception.

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Discrimination has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely been weaponized as thoroughly and publicly as in recent exchanges. The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has taken in medievalism (studies) relative to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity. These papers thus inform many of the subsequent chapters, which address a wide variety of aspects of medievalism, showing how many cultural areas it touches upon. Subjects include Evelyn Underhill's literary interest in the Arts and Crafts Movement; the Anchoresses of the filmmaker Chris Newby and novelist Robyn Cadwallader; cinematic battle orations; contemporary representations of Viking helmet horns; modern board-game culture; and Vincent Van Gogh's Studio of the South. The volume also includes a transcription and contextualization of the celebrated scholar Helen Waddell's notes on medieval texts.

Medievalism. --- Discrimination. --- Bias --- Interpersonal relations --- Minorities --- Toleration --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- cultural areas. --- culture. --- discrimination. --- ethnicity. --- gender. --- historical context. --- medieval texts. --- race. --- religion. --- representation.