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Medievalism aims to provide a forum for monographs and collections devoted to the burgeoning and highly dynamic multi-disciplinary field of medievalism studies: that is, work investigating the influence and appearance of `the medieval' in the society and culture of later ages. Titles within the series will investigate the post-medieval construction and manifestations of the Middle Ages - attitudes towards, and uses and meanings of, 'the medieval' - in all fields of culture, from politics and international relations, literature, history, architecture, and ceremonial ritual to film and the visual arts. It welcomes a wide range of topics, from historiographical subjects to revivalism, with the emphasis always firmly on what the idea of 'the medieval' has variously meant and continues to mean; it is founded on the belief that scholars interested in the middle ages can and should communicate their research both beyond and within the academic community of medievalists, and on the continuing relevance and presence of `the medieval' in the contemporary world.

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23 results in Medievalism

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Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England
  • Thomas Frederick Simmons and The 'Lay Folks' Mass Book'
  • David Jasper, Jeremy J. Smith
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2024
    Print publication:
    03 October 2023
  • In 1879, Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons edited the late medieval poem now known as 'The Lay Folks' Mass Book' creating what remains the standard edition of the text. This volume shows how Simmons' interest in the text was related profoundly to contemporary debates about worship in the Church of England, and how he used his medievalist researches as the basis for the most important attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the twentieth century.

Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
  • The 1848 Monument to Godfrey of Bouillon
  • Simon John
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2023
  • Offers new insights into the political and modern uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past and the role of historical culture in the creation of national identity.

Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century
  • Medievalism and National Crisis
  • Rebecca Brackmann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 December 2023
    Print publication:
    07 March 2023
  • Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history but, this book argues, the upheaval inspired them to produce some of the most famous landmark texts in early Old English studies.

National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century
  • Switzerland and Britain
  • Matthias D. Berger
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2023
    Print publication:
    18 July 2023
  • How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why.

International Medievalisms
  • From Nationalism to Activism
  • Edited by Mary Boyle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2023
    Print publication:
    14 February 2023
  • Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: 'Internationally Nationalist', 'Someone Else's Past?', and 'Activist Medievalism'.

Old English Medievalism
  • Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  • Edited by Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck, Oliver M. Traxel
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    29 November 2022
  • An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Medievalism: Key Critical Terms

Subaltern Medievalisms
  • Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Edited by David Matthews, Michael Sanders
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 February 2021
    Print publication:
    19 February 2021
  • A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
  • Celebrating the Calendar Year
  • Clare Simmons
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 February 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2021
  • A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.

Medievalism in English Canadian Literature

Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy
  • From Tolkien to Game of Thrones
  • Volume 16
  • KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    15 November 2019
  • The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.

François Villon in English Poetry

Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
  • Volume 12
  • Shiloh Carroll
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 October 2019
    Print publication:
    16 March 2018
  • Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how authentic is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question.

Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern
  • Volume 14
  • Robert Mills
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 July 2019
    Print publication:
    20 April 2018
  • First exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work.

William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
  • Volume 13
  • Ian Felce
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 July 2019
    Print publication:
    18 May 2018
  • An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.

Translating Early Medieval Poetry
  • Transformation, Reception, Interpretation
  • Edited by Tom Birkett, Kirsty March-Lyons
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    01 September 2018
    Print publication:
    31 October 2017
  • The first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an unprecedented level of creative engagement with early medieval literature, ranging from the long-awaited publication of Tolkien's version of Beowulf and the reworking of medieval lyrics by Ireland's foremost poets to the adaptation of Eddic and Skaldic poetry for the screen. This collection brings together scholars and accomplished translators working with Old English, Old Norse and Medieval Irish poetry, to take stock of this extraordinary proliferation of translation activity and to suggest new ways in which to approach these three dynamic literary traditions. The essays in this collection include critical surveys of texts and traditions to the present day, assessments of the practice and impact of individual translators from Jorge Luis Borges to Seamus Heaney, and reflections on the particular challenges of translating poetic forms and vocabulary into different languages and media. Together they present a series of informed and at times provocative perspectives on what it means to "carry across" early medieval poetry in our contemporary cultural climate. Dr Tom Birkett is lecturer in Old English at University College Cork; Dr Kirsty March-Lyons is a scholar of Old English and Latin poetry and co-organiser of the Irish Research Council funded conference and translation project "Eald to New".BR> Contributors: Tom Birkett, Elizabeth Boyle, Hannah Burrows, Gareth Lloyd Evans, Chris Jones, Carolyne Larrington, Hugh Magennis, Kirsty March-Lyons, Lahney Preston Matto, Inna Matyushina, Rory McTurk, Bernard O'Donoghue, Heather O'Donoghue, Tadhg Ó Síocháin, Bertha Rogers, M.J. Toswell.

Georgian Gothic
  • Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
  • Peter N. Lindfield
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 October 2017
    Print publication:
    20 October 2016
  • The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to "high" Victorian Gothic, and centred their discussion around Walpole's Strawberry Hill. This book, conversely, reveals how the style was imaginatively and repeatedly revised and incorporated into prevailing eighteenth-century fashions: Palladianism, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and antiquarianism. It shows how under the control of architects, from Wren to Pugin, Walpole and Cottingham, and furniture designs, especially those of Chippendale and Mayhew, a shared language of Gothic motifs was applied to British architecture, furniture and interiors. Georgian Britain was awash with Gothic forms, even if the arbiters of taste criticised it vehemently. Throughout, the volume reframes the Gothic revival's expression by connecting it with Georgian understandings of the medieval past, and consequently revises interpretation of one of the most influential, yet lampooned, forms of material culture at the time.

    Peter N. Lindfield is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Stirling.

Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France
  • Translation, Appropriation, Transformation
  • Jennifer Rushworth
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2017
    Print publication:
    17 March 2017
  • Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less well-known but equally rich Petrarchism: the nineteenth century. It considers both translations and rewritings: the former comprise not only Petrarch's celebrated Italian poetry but also his often neglected Latin works; the latter explore Petrarch's influence on and presence in French novels as well as poetry of the period, both in and out of the canon. Nineteenth-century French Petrarchism has its roots in the later part of the previous century, with formative contributions from Voltaire, Rousseau, and, in particular, the abbé de Sade. To these literary catalysts must be added the unification of Avignon with France at the Revolution, as well as anniversary commemorations of Petrarch's birth and death celebrated in Avignon and Fontaine-de-Vaucluse across the period (1804-1874-1904). Situated at the crossroads of reception history, medievalism, and translation studies, this investigation uncovers tensions between the competing construction of a national, French Petrarch and a local, Avignonese or Provençal poet. Taking Petrarch as its litmus test, this book also asks probing questions about the bases of nationality, identity, and belonging.

    Jennifer Rushworth is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
  • With contributions by Maria Artamonova , M. Atherton , Rebecca Anne Barr , Maria Sachiko Cecire , Catherine A. M. Clarke , Hannah J. Crawforth , Joshua Davies , Sian Echard , Allen J. Frantzen , John Halbrooks , Anna Johnson , C. S. Jones , Clare Lees and Heather O'Donoghue
  • Edited by David Clark, Nicholas Perkins
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 April 2017
    Print publication:
    21 October 2010
  • An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture. Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination

    Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood, Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection. The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination. They offer fresh insights on established figures, such as W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Jones, and on contemporary writers such as Geoffrey Hill, Peter Reading, P.D. James, and Heaney. They explore the interaction between text, image and landscape in medieval and modern books, the recasting of mythic figures such as Wayland Smith, and the metamorphosis of Beowulf into Grendel - as a novel and as grand opera. The early medieval emerges not simply as a site of nostalgia or anxiety in modern revisions, but instead provides a vital arena for creativity, pleasure, and artistic experiment.

    Contributors: Bernard O'Donoghue, Chris Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna Johnson, Clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Allen J. Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J. Crawforth, Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr

Medievalism
  • A Critical History
  • David Matthews
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    15 January 2015
  • The field known as 'medievalism studies' concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity, from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? Can such a diverse field claim coherence? Should it be housed in departments of English, or History, or should it always be interdisciplinary? In responding to such questions, the author traces the history of medievalism from its earliest appearances in the sixteenth century to the present day, across a range of examples drawn from the spheres of literature, art, architecture, music and more. He identifies two major modes, the grotesque and the romantic, and focuses on key phases of the development of medievalism in Europe: the Reformation, the late eighteenth century, and above all the period between 1815 and 1850, which, he argues, represents the zenith of medievalist cultural production. He also contends that the 1840s were medievalism's one moment of canonicity in several European cultures at once. After that, medievalism became a minority form, rarely marked with cultural prestige, though always pervasive and influential. Medievalism: a Critical History scrutinises several key categories - space, time, and selfhood - and traces the impact of medievalism on each. It will be the essential guide to a complex and still evolving field of inquiry. David Matthews teaches medieval studies at the University of Manchester.

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