Affective medievalism: Love, abjection and discontent

✍ Scribed by Thomas A. Prendergast; Stephanie Trigg

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 163
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
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
Index

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