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Georgian Gothic
Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Inbunden, 2016
1342 kr
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First full-length study of the impact of the Gothic Revival across the arts, from literature and architectural theory to houses, furniture and interiors.The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to …
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2020
1250 kr
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The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future …
Chivalry and the Medieval Past
Av Katie Stevenson, Barbara Gribling
Häftad, 2021
307 kr
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An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages.One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon, constantly adapted in the hands of medieval …
Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England
Thomas Frederick Simmons and the Lay Folks' Mass Book
Av David Jasper, Jeremy J Smith
Inbunden, 2023
1499 kr
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In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass Book creating what remains the standard edition of the text. This volume shows how Simmons' interest in the text was related profoundly to contemporary debates about worship in the Church of …
Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
The 1848 Monument to Godfrey of Bouillon
Av Simon John
Inbunden, 2023
1276 kr
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This study of the monument of Godfrey of Bouillon offers new insights to the political uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past, modern uses and appropriations of the Middle Ages, and the role of historical culture in the creation of national identity.On 15 August 1848, a bronze …
Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest
Inbunden, 2013
1276 kr
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In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "remembered".The Norman Conquest is one of the most significant events in British history - but how is it actually remembered and perceived today? This book offers a study of …
Chivalry and the Medieval Past
Av Katie Stevenson, Barbara Gribling
Inbunden, 2016
1276 kr
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An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages.One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon, constantly adapted in the hands of medieval …
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Av David Clark, Nicholas Perkins
Inbunden, 2010
1499 kr
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The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary …
Medievalist Enlightenment
From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inbunden, 2013
1424 kr
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The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out.Literary medievalism played a vital role in the construction of the French Enlightenment. Starting with the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, it influenced …
Medievalism: a Critical History
Inbunden, 2015
977 kr
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An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the …
Medievalism: a Critical History
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the …
Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
Av Elizabeth Emery, Richard Utz
Häftad, 2017
430 kr
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Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from …
Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France
Translation, Appropriation, Transformation
Inbunden, 2017
1513 kr
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A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese.Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less …
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media
Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2017
456 kr
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An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade". His comments, however, were welcomed by Al-Qaeda, who had long been describing Western powers in precisely …
Translating Early Medieval Poetry
Transformation, Reception, Interpretation
Av Tom Birkett, Kirsty March-Lyons
Inbunden, 2017
1424 kr
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The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding of how the old is continually made anewThe first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an unprecedented level of creative engagement with early …
Comic Medievalism
Laughing at the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.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 …
Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Inbunden, 2018
444 kr
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Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question.One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television …
Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern
Av Robert Mills
Inbunden, 2018
474 kr
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First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the possible exception of Edward …
William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
Av Ian Felce
Inbunden, 2018
1424 kr
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An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long poems "The Lovers of Gudrun" and Sigurd the …
François Villon in English Poetry
Translation and Influence
Inbunden, 2018
1440 kr
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Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet.Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, François Villon, has long captured the imaginations of creative writers. Attracted by his beguilingly pseudo-autobiographical literary persona and a body of work that moves seamlessly …
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy
From Tolkien to Game of Thrones
Inbunden, 2019
1440 kr
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The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.Medievalism - the ways in which post-medieval societies perceive, interpret, reimagine, or appropriate the Middle Ages - permeates popular culture. From Disney princesses to Game of Thrones, …
Medievalism in English Canadian Literature
From Richardson to Atwood
Av M. J. Toswell, Anna Czarnowus
Inbunden, 2020
1440 kr
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First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first …
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Celebrating the Calendar Year
Inbunden, 2021
1424 kr
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A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that nineteenth-century Britons asked themselves: which was more …
Subaltern Medievalisms
Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av David Matthews, Michael Sanders
Inbunden, 2021
1424 kr
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A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from …
International Medievalisms
From Nationalism to Activism
Av Mary Boyle
Inbunden, 2023
1424 kr
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Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "Internationally Nationalist", "Someone Else's Past?", and "Activist Medievalism".Medievalism - the reception of the Middle Ages - often invokes a set of tropes generally considered 'medieval', rather than …
Old English Medievalism
Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Av Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1499 kr
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An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Old English language and literary style have long been a source of …
Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century
Medievalism and National Crisis
Inbunden, 2023
1424 kr
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Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history, but the upheaval inspired them to produce landmark texts in early Old English studies.England in the 1640s and 1650s experienced civil wars, regicide, and unprecedented debate over …
National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century
Switzerland and Britain
Inbunden, 2023
1499 kr
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How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why.After a period of abeyance, the link forged in the nineteenth century between the Middle Ages and national …
Tennyson's Philological Medievalism
Av Sarah Weaver
Inbunden, 2024
1499 kr
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Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology.How do words come to mean what they mean, and how can we hope to use them precisely when they are constantly changing? The urge to find a word's meaning …
New World Medievalisms
The Middle Ages in the American Cultural Imaginary
Inbunden, 2025
1424 kr
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Examines how the European Middle Ages has been used and received in a variety of American cultural contexts.There is a deep-seated preoccupation in North America with the cultures of the European Middle Ages, but despite the insightful conversations that have developed between medieval and …
