Appropriating the Middle Ages

Appropriating the Middle Ages
Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780859916264

From early modern times rulers and politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a number of such cases.

Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media

Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media
Author: Andrew B. R. Elliott
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 184384463X

An exploration of how the Middle Ages are manipulated ideologically in today's communication.

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages

C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages
Author: Robert Boenig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Middle Ages in literature
ISBN: 9781606351147

"In C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, medievalist Robert Boenig explores Lewis's personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues convincingly that medieval modes of creativity had a profound impact on Lewis's imaginative fiction." -- Cover

Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies

Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies
Author: Aleksander Pluskowski
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic species, or recruiting as mascots. When we consider medieval attitudes to animals we are tackling a fundamentally human, and distinctly idiosyncratic, behavioural trait. The sixteen papers presented here investigate animals from zoological, anthropological, artistic and economic perspectives, within the context of the medieval world.

Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism

Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004688358

Bringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For example, aesthetic movements such as Arts and Crafts, which looked for inspiration in the medieval era, are echoed by steampunk in its return to Victorian dress and technology. Issues of gender identity, sexuality, imperialism and nostalgia arise in both neo-Victorianism and medievalism, and analysis of such texts is enriched and expanded by the interconnections between the two fields represented in this groundbreaking collection.

Medieval Conduct

Medieval Conduct
Author: Kathleen M. Ashley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816635757

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records -- the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Medieval Futures

Medieval Futures
Author: John Anthony Burrow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 0851157793

Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.

Digging into the Dark Ages

Digging into the Dark Ages
Author: Howard Williams
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789695287

What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900
Author: Ildar Garipzanov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192546619

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.

Solitudo

Solitudo
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004367438

This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.