Introduction: medievalism: scope and complexity Louise D'Arcens; 1. Medievalism in British poetry Chris Jones; 2. Medievalism and architecture John M. Ganim; 3. Medievalism and cinema Bettina Bildhauer; 4. Musical medievalism and the harmony of the spheres Helen Dell; 5. Participatory medievalism, digital gaming, and role playing Daniel T. Kline; 6. Early modern medievalism Mike Rodman Jones; 7. Romantic medievalism Clare A. Simmons; 8. Academic medievalism and nationalism Richard Utz; 9. Medievalism and the ideology of war Andrew Lynch; 10. Medievalism in Spanish America after independence Nadia Altschul; 11. Neomedievalism and international relations Bruce Holsinger; 12. Global medievalism and translation Candace Barrington; 13. Medievalism and theories of temporality Stephanie Trigg; 14. Queer medievalisms: a case study of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Tison Pugh.
An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in the English Literatures Program at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where she teaches medieval and medievalist literature. Her PhD and BA (Hons) are from the University of Sydney. She holds a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the project 'Comic Medievalism and the Modern World', has been a recipient of grants from the Australian Academy of Humanities and the ARC, and is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 100–1800. Her publications include the books Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages (2014) and Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature, 1840–1910 (2011), as well as the edited volumes The International Medievalism and Popular Culture (Andrew Lynch, 2014), The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting (Anne Collett, 2010), and Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars (Juanita Ruys, 2004). She has also published numerous book chapters on medievalism as well as articles in journals such as Representations, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Screening the Past, Parergon, and Postmedieval.
'[This book] offers 14 substantial essays that succeed both in
introducing topics of medievalism to new scholars and in providing
new insights that will benefit those already familiar with the
re-presentation and re-imagination of the medieval period … Summing
Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' A.
L. Kaufman, Choice
'A valuable addition to the Cambridge Companions series. Its
paperback price puts it within the reach of most students, and its
range and the quality … makes it a desirable addition to the
shelves of any medievalist scholar. It is to be hoped that it will
inspire fuller explorations of the countless intriguing medievalist
works it surveys.' David Clark, The Medieval Review
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