Daniel Wollenberg is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tampa, specializing in medieval literature and culture. He has recently published articles on political medievalism on the far right in the journal postmedieval.

• Introduction1. Getting Political 2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe 3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins 4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism Postscript: The Eternal Return of the Medieval Further Reading

“[A] lively, authoritative, thorough, persuasive, and insightful study of the ways in which the medieval has come to be exploited in the service of modern political movements."

Daniel Wollenberg is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tampa, specializing in medieval literature and culture. He has recently published articles on political medievalism on the far right in the journal postmedieval.

• Introduction1. Getting Political 2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe 3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins 4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism Postscript: The Eternal Return of the Medieval Further Reading

“[A] lively, authoritative, thorough, persuasive, and insightful study of the ways in which the medieval has come to be exploited in the service of modern political movements."

Daniel Wollenberg is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tampa, specializing in medieval literature and culture. He has recently published articles on political medievalism on the far right in the journal postmedieval.

• Introduction1. Getting Political 2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe 3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins 4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism Postscript: The Eternal Return of the Medieval Further Reading

“[A] lively, authoritative, thorough, persuasive, and insightful study of the ways in which the medieval has come to be exploited in the service of modern political movements."