Thinking of the Medieval

Benjamin A. Saltzman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. R. D. Perry is Assistant Professor, Department of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver.

• Introduction: Directions of Thought – The Middle Ages at the Mid-century R. D. Perry and Benjamin A. Saltzman; Part I. Politics: 1. Outside History: Fanon's Negative Manicheism D. Vance Smith; 2. 'The noblest blood God ever made': W. E. B. Du Bois's Medievalism in the Contexts of the World Wars Cord J. Whitaker; 3. Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California Regents Nancy van Deusen; 4. Hannah Arendt's Middle Ages for the Left R. D. Perry; Part II. Arts: 5. Curtius and Jung: Commonplaces, Archetypes, and Literature's Collective Unconscious Emily V. Thornbury; 6. Old English at the Midcentury: Poetry, Scholarship, and Fiction in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s Clare A. Lees; 7. Erwin Panofsky's Neo-Kantian Humanism and the Purported Relation between Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism C. Oliver O'Donnell; 8. 'Are women human?': Authority, Gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. Sayers's Scholarship Helen Brookman; Part III. Epochs: 9. Periodization Trouble: Auerbach, Huizinga, and the Question of Medieval Realism Jane O. Newman; 10. Medieval Mysticism and the Making of Simone Weil Anna Kelner; 11. Hermeneutics and the Medieval Horizon: Zumthor, Jauss, Barthes, and Gadamer Benjamin A. Saltzman; Afterword Martin Jay; Bibliography; Index.

'This fascinating volume promises to make a valuable intervention in medieval studies and a rich and challenging contribution to our understanding of the life of the Middle Ages in modernity.' Josh Davies, King's College London