The Middle Ages in the Modern World Twenty-first century perspectives

by Bildhauer, Bettina; Jones, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780197266144
• ISBN10: 0197266142
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bettina Bildhauer is Professor of German at University of St. Andrews.

Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at University of St. Andrews.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first-century Perspectives, Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones
Part One: Medievalism in Politics and Histories
2. Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism, Bruce Holsinger
3. 'The North Remembers': The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture, Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly, and Kath Stevenson
4. Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries, Patrick Geary
5. War, Church, Empire, and the Medieval in British Histories for Children, Andrew Lynch
Part Two: Practising Medievalism
6. 'Adventure? What is that?' On Iwein, Felicitas Hoppe
7. Saints' Cults and Celebrity, James Robinson
8. Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward, and the Playful, Graham Coatman
9. Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens, Fani Gargova
10. Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World, Chris Jones
11. Forging 'Medieval' Identities: Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn
Part Three: Medievalism in Literature and Culture
12. Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies, Elizabeth Robertson
13. Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Tain, Conor McCarthy
14. Visuality, Violence, and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story, Bettina Bildhauer
15. Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making, Carolyn Dinshaw
16. The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine, Roland Betancourt