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OverviewThe Middle Ages continue to provide an important touchstone for the way the modern West presents itself and its relationship with the rest of the globe. This volume brings together leading scholars of literature and history, together with musicians, novelists, librarians, and museum curators in order to present exciting, up-to-date perspectives on how and why the Middle Ages continue to matter in the 20th and 21st centuries. Presented here, their essays represent a unique dialogue between scholars and practitioners of 'medievalism'. Framed by an introductory essay on the broad history of the continuing evolution of the idea of 'The Middle Ages' from the 14th century to the present day, chapters deal with subjects as diverse as: the use of Old Norse sagas by Republican deniers of climate change; the way figures like the Irish hero Cú Chulainn and St Patrick were used to give legitimacy to political affiliations during the Ulster 'Troubles'; the use of the Middle Ages in films by Pasolini and Tarantino; the adoption of the 'Green Man' motif in popular culture; Lady Gaga's manipulation of medieval iconography in her music videos; the translation of medieval poetry from manuscript to digital media; and the problem of writing national history free from the 'toxic medievalism' of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the Middle Ages and its impact on recent political and cultural history. It is dedicated to the memory of Seamus Heaney, who gave his last overseas lecture in St Andrews in 2013, the year this book was conceived, and whose late poetry this book also discusses. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bettina Bildhauer (Lecturer in German, Lecturer in German, University of St Andrews) , Chris Jones (Senior Lecturer, School of English, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of St Andrews)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Volume: 208 Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.854kg ISBN: 9780197266144ISBN 10: 0197266142 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 28 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones: Introduction: The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first-century Perspectives Part One: Medievalism in Politics and Histories 2: Bruce Holsinger: Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism 3: Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly, and Kath Stevenson: 'The North Remembers': The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture 4: Patrick Geary: Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries 5: Andrew Lynch: War, Church, Empire, and the Medieval in British Histories for Children Part Two: Practising Medievalism 6: Felicitas Hoppe: 'Adventure? What is that?' On Iwein 7: James Robinson: Saints' Cults and Celebrity 8: Graham Coatman: Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward, and the Playful 9: Fani Gargova: Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens 10: Chris Jones: Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World 11: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn: Forging 'Medieval' Identities: Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Part Three: Medievalism in Literature and Culture 12: Elizabeth Robertson: Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies 13: Conor McCarthy: Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Táin 14: Bettina Bildhauer: Visuality, Violence, and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story 15: Carolyn Dinshaw: Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making 16: Roland Betancourt: The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the ByzantineReviewsIt is a feast of literature and medievalism. I hope you enjoy it. Terry Jones, Chaucerian and Pythonist `It is a feast of literature and medievalism. I hope you enjoy it.' Terry Jones, Chaucerian and Pythonist Author InformationBettina Bildhauer works on medieval German literature and culture in a European context, especially on material things, blood, monstrosity, bodies, gender and the limits of the human. Her work on medievalist film has been published in Filming the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2011), and The Middle Ages on Film, an essay collection co-edited with Anke Bernau (Manchester University Press 2009). Chris Jones teaches medieval and medievalist literature at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely in these fields, including the critically acclaimed Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (OUP, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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