Medievalism, the later reception of the Middle Ages, has been used by many writers, not just during the Victorian period but from the Renaissance to the present, as a means of commenting on their own societies and systems of values. Until recently, this self-interest was used to distinguish between Medievalism, a selective, often romanticised, view of the past, and medieval studies, with its quest for an authentic Middle Ages. The essays in this collection suggest that the search for knowledge of a "real" Middle Ages has always been a problematic one, and that the vitality of the vision of Medievalism is demonstrated by its constant adaption to current concerns.
Author(s): Clare A. Simmons
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 176
City: London
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MEDIEVALISM AND THE QUEST FOR THE ''REAL'' MIDDLE AGES
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Contents
Introduction
Samuel Daniel's Defense of Medievalism
Chivalry and Romance in the Eighteenth Century: Richard Hurd and the Disenchantment of The Faerie Queene
Waging Battle: Ashford v. Thornton, Ivanhoe, and Legal Violence
Marianne: Mystic or Madwoman? Representations of Jeanne d'Arc on the Parisian Stage in the 1820s
The "Truth" About the Middle Ages: La Revue des Deux Mondes and Late Nineteenth-Century French Medievalism
Medieval Religion, Victorian Homosexualities
Heraldry and Red Hats: Linguistic Skepticism and Chesterton's Revision of Ruskinian Medievalism
The Return of the King: Medievalism and the Politics of Nostalgia in the Mythopoetic Men's Movement
Abstracts
Notes on Contributors
Index
