- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism
- 2 ‘The North Remembers’: The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture
- 3 Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries<sup>1</sup>
- 4 War, Church, Empire and the Medieval in British Histories for Children
- 5 ‘Adventure? What Is That?’ On <i>Iwein</i>
- 6 Saints’ Cults and Celebrity: The Medieval Legacy
- 7 Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward and the Playful
- 8 Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens
- 9 Digital <i>Mouvance</i>: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World<sup>1</sup>
- 10 Forging ‘Medieval’ Identities: Fortini’s Calendimaggio and Pasolini’s <i>Trilogy of Life</i>
- 11 Chaucer’s and Wordsworth’s Vivid Daisies
- 12 Time, Place, Language and Translation: Ciaran Carson’s <i>The Inferno</i> and <i>The Táin</i>
- 13 Visuality, Violence and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino’s <i>Inglourious Basterds</i> as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story
- 14 Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-Making
- 15 The Medium Is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- The Middle Ages in the Modern World
- Author(s):
Bettina Bildhauer
Chris Jones
- Publisher:
- British Academy
Here the editors review the long history of medievalism, starting with its origins as a period designation and continuing to survey its use in contemporary public discourse as a term of political opprobrium, and its influence as a source of inspiration and creativity in cultural and artistic endeavour in the twenty-first century. An overarching historical narrative of medievalism is therefore sketched out, in order that the detailed studies of individual chapters may be better contextualised. It is suggested that medievalism remains one of the main tropes by which the West figures itself as ‘modern’, and governs its relationship with the rest of the globe.
Keywords: medievalism, Middle Ages, reception, periodisation, modernity
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism
- 2 ‘The North Remembers’: The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture
- 3 Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries<sup>1</sup>
- 4 War, Church, Empire and the Medieval in British Histories for Children
- 5 ‘Adventure? What Is That?’ On <i>Iwein</i>
- 6 Saints’ Cults and Celebrity: The Medieval Legacy
- 7 Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward and the Playful
- 8 Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens
- 9 Digital <i>Mouvance</i>: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World<sup>1</sup>
- 10 Forging ‘Medieval’ Identities: Fortini’s Calendimaggio and Pasolini’s <i>Trilogy of Life</i>
- 11 Chaucer’s and Wordsworth’s Vivid Daisies
- 12 Time, Place, Language and Translation: Ciaran Carson’s <i>The Inferno</i> and <i>The Táin</i>
- 13 Visuality, Violence and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino’s <i>Inglourious Basterds</i> as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story
- 14 Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-Making
- 15 The Medium Is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine
- Index
