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OverviewHow is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001). Emerging around the turn of the 20th century, the museums explore medieval German literature, cultural memory and local history. As the museums reconstruct and transform medieval narratives for the contemporary audience, they enact the process of medievalism: they reveal how memory, through the lens of the middle ages, shapes modern cultural identity and heritage. Medieval Literature on Display thereby contributes to important conversations about medievalism’s role in constructing and affirming cultural identity, in conceptualizing and finding places for the future of the past. This unique book is vital reading for scholars of medieval literature and historians of medieval Europe, as well as scholars of visual culture and museum studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Appalachian State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781788316897ISBN 10: 1788316894 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 23 January 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Wolframs Eschenbach: A Statue and Story Chapter 1: Medievalism and Memory Chapter 2: Adapting Medieval Narratives Chapter 3: A Knight at the Museum: Medieval Literature and/as Local Heritage at the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach Chapter 4: The Machinery of Myth: The Nibelung Museum and the Interrogation of Cultural Memory Chapter 5: Presencing the Narrative Past: Old Structures, New Stories Chapter 6: The Future of the Past: Medieval Literature on Display Figures Notes BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationAlexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand is Professor of German and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, USA. She is the author of Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance: Studies in Medieval History and Culture (2001), as well as articles on medieval German literature and its afterlives from the middle ages to the present. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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