Studies in Medievalism XIX: Defining Neomedievalism(s)

✍ Scribed by Karl Fugelso (editor)

• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on Medievalism, in ever more sessions at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, and by many recent or forthcoming publications has left little doubt of the importance of this new, provocative area of study. In response to a seminal essay defining medievalism in relationship to neomedievalism (published in volume 18 of this journal), the volume begins with seven essays defining neomedievalism in relationship to medievalism. Their positions are then tested by five articles, whose subjects range from modern American manifestations of Byzantine art, to the Vietnam War as refracted through non-heterosexual implications in the 1976 movie Robin and Marian, and versions of abjection in recent Beowulf films. Theory and practice are thus juxtaposed in a volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest growing areas of academia.

✦ Table of Contents

FRONTCOVER......Page 1
CONTENTS
......Page 8
EDITORIAL NOTE......Page 12
Medieval Unmoored......Page 16
Neomedievalism, Hyperrealism, and Simulation......Page 27
A Short Essay about Neomedievalism......Page 40
Neomedievalism: An Eleventh Little Middle Ages?......Page 49
The Simulacrum of Neomedievalism......Page 59
Sandworms, Bodices, and Undergrounds: The Transformative Mélange of Neomedievalism......Page 73
Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s)......Page 83
Utopia and Heterotopia: Byzantine Modernisms in America......Page 92
Queer Crusading, Military Masculinity, and Allegories of Vietnam in Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian......Page 129
Getting Reel with Grendel’s Mother: The Abject Maternal and Social Critique......Page 150
The Colony Writes Back: F. N. Robinson’s Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Translatio of Chaucer Studies to the United States......Page 175
False Memories: The Dream of Chaucer and Chaucer’s Dream in the Medieval Revival......Page 219
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 242
BACKCOVER
......Page 248