Studies in Medievalism

pp v-v

Acknowledgments

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xviii

I - Essays on Politics and Medievalism (Studies)

pp xix-xx

Medievalism and Gulf-War Politics in Tariq Ali’s A Sultan in Palermo

pp 1-8

Czech Political Medievalism: Tomáš G. Masaryk and Petr Chelčický

pp 9-18

Robin Hood Political Memes: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Far Right’s Appropriation of the English Outlaw

pp 19-28

Cry George: Grounding English National Identity in the Age of Brexit

pp 29-52

“Once More into the Breach!”: Allusions to Agincourt and the Medieval Past in Cross-Channel Political Reporting of Brexit

pp 53-74

Rest in Gold: A Medieval-Like Memorial for German Soldiers at El Alamein

pp 75-106

Provenance and Reception of Iberian Chivalric Books in English from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589)

pp 107-128

In Woden’s Shadow: Anglo-Saxonism, Paganism, and Politics in Modern England

pp 129-156

The West Remembers (Its Premodern Self): Nation, Civilization, and the Insular Middle Ages in Game of Thrones

pp 157-172

II - Other Responses to Medievalism

pp 173-174

The Emasculation of Theon Greyjoy

pp 175-186

George R. R. Martin and the Virgin Martyr: Misogyno-feminism and the (Ab)uses of the Past

pp 187-202

The Composite Unity of the Entangled Self in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife

pp 203-228

Fit for Print, Not for Spectacle: Ringling Bros. and the Careful Exploitation of Joan of Arc

pp 229-252

Contributors

pp 253-256

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 257-257