Global Medievalism: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Helen Young; Kavita Mudan Finn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 82
Series: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
Edition: OC
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe as either the whole world or the centre of it, by making them visible and offering alternative perspectives. How does popular culture represent medievalist worlds as global-connected by the movement of people and objects? How do imagined mobilities allow us to create counterstories that resist Eurocentric norms? This study represents the start of what will hopefully be a fruitful and inclusive conversation of what the Middle Ages did, and should, look like.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Global Medievalism: An Introduction
Contents

Introduction
    What Are the Global Middle Ages?
    What Is Global Medievalism?
    Popular Culture and Global Medievalism
    Mobilities and Global Medievalism

Medieval Mobilities: Vikings
    Norse Culture, Whiteness, and Spatial Medievalism
    Viking Encounters and Encountering Vikings
    Vikings (2013–2020)
        Viking Centres
        Travelling to and from the East
        Travelling West
        Decentred Vikings
    Vikings and Violence: Taking Possession

Dealing with Dragons: Two Approaches to Global Medievalist Epic
    Fantasy As Epic
    The World of Ice and Fire
    Paths of Virtu(dom)
    Essos and the Wester(osi) Gaze
    Global Journeys in The Priory of the Orange Tree
    Wyrms and White Walkers: World Risk
    Counterstoryingtelling and Conventions

A World Elsewhere: Reimagining Global Medievalisms in Fantasy
    Recentring the Medievalist Fantasy World: The Daevabad Trilogy
    Decolonising Arthuriana
    Restorying Medievalism

Coda: Global Medievalism Redux

Bibliography
Acknowledgements

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