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Studies in Medievalism XXIV : Medievalism on the Margins

✍ Scribed by Karl Fugelso; Vincent Ferré; Alicia C. Montoya; (eds.)


Publisher
D. S. Brewer
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Leaves
260
Series
Studies in Medievalism
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages. This volume not only defines medievalism's margins, as well as its role in marginalizing other fields, ideas, people, places, and events, but also provides tools and models for exploring those issues and indicates new subjects towhich they might apply. The eight opening essays address the physical marginalizing of medievalism in annotated texts on medieval studies; the marginalism of oneself via medievalism; medievalism's dearth of ecotheory and religious studies; academia's paucity of pop medievalism; and the marginalization of races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and literary characters in contemporary medievalism. The seven subsequent articles build on this foundation while discussing: the distancing of oneself (and others) during imaginary visits to the Middle Ages; lessons from the margins of Brazilian medievalism; mutual marginalization among factions of Spanish medieval studies; and medievalism in the marginalization of lower socio-economic classes in late-eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain, of modern gamers, of contemporary laborers, and of Alfred Austin, a late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet also known as Alfred the Little. In thus investigating the margins of and marginalization via medievalism, the volume affirms their centrality to the field.

✦ Table of Contents


List of Illustrations ix
Editorial Note Karl Fugelso xi
I: Medievalism on the Margins: Some Perspective(s)
Medievalism in the Margins: Paratexts and the Packaging of Medieval French Literature / Elizabeth Emery 1
Medievalism Studies and the Subject of Religion / Richard Utz 11
Pop Medievalism / Erin Felicia Labbie 21
Ecomedievalism: Applying Ecotheory to Medievalism and Neomedievalism / Valerie B. Johnson 31
Whiteness and Time: The Once, Present, and Future Race / Helen Young 39
A Desire for Origins: The Marginal Robin Hood of the Later Ballads / Alexander L. Kaufman 51
Women, Queerness, and 'Massive Chalice': Medievalism in Participatory Culture / Serina Patterson 63
β€œConstant inward looking,” Medieval Devotional Literature, and the Concordium-Fruitlands Library / Vickie Larsen 75
II: Trans-Atlantic Medievalism(s)
Speaking of the Middle Ages Today: European and Transatlantic Perspectives / Vincent FerrΓ© and Alicia C. Montoya 89
Echoes from the Middle Ages: Tales of Chivalry, 'Romances', and Nation-building in Spain (1750–1850) / Juan Gomis 93
Antiquarianism over Presentism: Reflections on Spanish Medieval Studies / Jaume Aurell 115
Medievalism and the Contemporaneity of the Medieval in Postcolonial Brazil / Nadia R. Altschul 139
III: Other Interpretations
The Middle Ages Are within Your Grasp: Motor Neurons, Mirror Neurons, Simulacra, and Imagining the Past / Jeff Rider 155
Alfred the Little: Medievalism, Politics, and the Poet Laureate / Megan Arnott 177
Swords, Sorcery, and Steam: The Industrial Dark Ages in Contemporary Medievalism / Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly 193
Modern-day Ring-givers: MMORPG Guild Cultures and the Influence of the Anglo-Saxon World / Lindsey Simon-Jones 217
Contributors 237

✦ Subjects


History--Middle Age; Medieval Studies; Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching; Literature, Medieval--History and criticism;


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