Del 208 i serien Proceedings of the British Academy

The Middle Ages in the Modern World

Twenty-first century perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvBildhauer,Bettina Bildhauer,Chris Jones

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The 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-09-28
Mått164 x 241 x 25 mm
Vikt854 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieProceedings of the British Academy
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780197266144

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Bettina 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).

1: Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones: Introduction: The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first-century PerspectivesPart One: Medievalism in Politics and Histories2: Bruce Holsinger: Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism3: Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly, and Kath Stevenson: 'The North Remembers': The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture4: Patrick Geary: Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries5: Andrew Lynch: War, Church, Empire, and the Medieval in British Histories for ChildrenPart Two: Practising Medievalism6: Felicitas Hoppe: 'Adventure? What is that?' On Iwein7: James Robinson: Saints' Cults and Celebrity8: Graham Coatman: Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward, and the Playful9: Fani Gargova: Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens10: Chris Jones: Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World11: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn: Forging 'Medieval' Identities: Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of LifePart Three: Medievalism in Literature and Culture12: Elizabeth Robertson: Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies13: Conor McCarthy: Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Táin14: Bettina Bildhauer: Visuality, Violence, and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story15: Carolyn Dinshaw: Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making16: Roland Betancourt: The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine