Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films. The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is too important to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval images - and also, it must be said, their dangerousness and often their falsity.
Author(s): Tom Shippey, Martin Arnold (eds.)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: Cambridge
Editorial Note / Tom Shippey 1
Arthurian Melodrama, Chaucerian Spectacle, and the Waywardness of Cinematic Pastiche in 'First Knight' and 'A Knight’s Tale' / Nickolas Haydock 5
Modern Mystics, Medieval Saints / Gwendolyn Morgan 39
Seeking the Human Image in 'The Advocate' / William F. Woods 55
Harold in Normandy: History and Romance / Carl Hammer 79
The Day of a Thousand Years: Winchester’s 1901 Commemoration of Alfred the Great / Joanne Parker 113
'Eric Brighteyes': Rider Haggard rewrites the Sagas / Jóna Hammer 137
“Biddeth Peres Ploughman go to his werk”: Appropriation of 'Piers Plowman' in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Paul Hardwick 171
What 'Tales of a Wayside Inn' tells us about Longfellow and about Chaucer / William Calin 197
Bad Baronets and the Curse of Medievalism / Clare A. Simmons 215
“The Bony Grasping Hand”: Nineteenth-Century American Protestant Views on Medieval Canon Law / Bruce Brasington 237
Notes on Contributors 255
