Studies in Medievalism XXV: Medievalism and Modernity

✍ Scribed by Karl Fugelso, Joshua Davies, Sarah Salih (eds.)

Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Essays examining the complex intertwining and effect of medievalism on modernity - and vice versa. The question of how modernity has influenced medievalism and how medievalism has influenced modernity is the theme of this volume. The opening essays examine the 2001 film 'Just Visiting's' comments on modern anxieties via medievalism; conflations of modernity with both medievalism and the Middle Ages in rewriting sources; the emergence of modernity amid the post-World War I movement The Most Noble Order of Crusaders; António Sardinha's promotion of medievalism as an antidote to modernity; and Mercedes Rubio's medievalism in her feminist commentary on modernity. The eight subsequent articles build on this foundation while discussing remnants of medieval London amid its moderndescendant; Michel Houellebecq's critique of medievalism through his 2011 novel 'La Carte et le territoire'; historical authenticity in Michael Morrow's approach to performing medieval music; contemporary concerns in Ford Madox Brown and David Gentleman's murals; medieval Chester in Catherine A. M. Clarke and Nayan Kulkarni's 'Hryre' (2012); medieval influences on the formation of and debate about modern moral panics; medievalist considerations inmodern repurposings of medieval anchorholds; and medieval sources for Paddy Molloy's 'Here Be Dragons' (2013). The articles thus test the essays' methods and conclusions, even as the essays offer fresh perspectives on the articles.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Editorial Note / Karl Fugelso xi
I: Medievalism and Modernity: Some Perspective(s)
Medievalism at the End of History: Pessimism and Renewal in 'Just Visiting' / John Lance Griffith 1
Medieval Restoration and Modern Creativity / Katherine A. Brown 11
Crusader Medievalism and Modernity in Britain: The Most Noble Order of Crusaders and the Rupture of the First World War, 1921–49 / Mike Horswell 19
From the 'Republica Christiana' to the “Great Revolution”: Middle Ages and Modernity in António Sardinha’s Writings (1914–25) / Pedro Martins 29
Moving through Time and Space in Mercedes Rubio’s 'Las siete muchachas del Liceo' (1957) via Wagner’s 'Parsifal' in Barcelona, Spain (1914) / Lisa Nalbone 37
II: Medievalist Visions
Introduction / Joshua Davies and Sarah Salih 47
In/visible Medieval/isms / Sarah Salih 53
Art, Heritage Industries, and the Legacy of William Morris in Michel Houellebecq’s 'The Map and the Territory' / Louise D’Arcens 71
Travel in Space, Travel in Time: Michael Morrow’s Approach to Performing Medieval Music in the 1960s / Edward Breen 89
Imagining Medieval Chester: Practice-based Medievalism, Scholarship, and Creativity / Catherine A. M. Clarke 115
The Anachronic Middle Ages: Public Art, Cultural Memory, and the Medievalist Imagination / Joshua Davies 135
Medievalisms of Moral Panic: Borrowing the Past to Frame Fear in the Present / James L. Smith 157
Extra-Temporal Place Attachment and Adaptive Reuse: The Afterlives of Medieval English Anchorholds / Michelle M. Sauer 173
Here Be Dragons: Mapping Space and Time, Medieval and Modern / Paddy Molloy 197
Contributors 215

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