Affective medievalism: Love, abjection and discontent

✍ Scribed by Thomas A. Prendergast; Stephanie Trigg

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect readers in the present with the lost history of what may be called the ‘medievalism of the medievals’. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice
The space of time and the medievalist imaginary
Wonderful things
Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages
Loving the past
Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary works
Index