Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526126863
- eISBN:
- 9781526142009
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526126863.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book destabilises the customary disciplinary and epistemological oppositions between medieval studies and modern medievalism. It argues that the twinned concepts of “the medieval” and ...
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This book destabilises the customary disciplinary and epistemological oppositions between medieval studies and modern medievalism. It argues that the twinned concepts of “the medieval” and post-medieval “medievalism” are mutually though unevenly constitutive, not just in the contemporary era, but from the medieval period on. Medieval and medievalist culture share similar concerns about the nature of temporality, and the means by which we approach or “touch” the past, whether through textual or material culture, or the conceptual frames through which we approach those artefacts. Those approaches are often affective ones, often structured around love, abjection and discontent. Medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect present readers with the lost history of what we call the medievalism of the medievals. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past. The book ranges across literary and historical texts, but is equally attentive to material culture and its problematic witness to the reality of the historical past.Less
This book destabilises the customary disciplinary and epistemological oppositions between medieval studies and modern medievalism. It argues that the twinned concepts of “the medieval” and post-medieval “medievalism” are mutually though unevenly constitutive, not just in the contemporary era, but from the medieval period on. Medieval and medievalist culture share similar concerns about the nature of temporality, and the means by which we approach or “touch” the past, whether through textual or material culture, or the conceptual frames through which we approach those artefacts. Those approaches are often affective ones, often structured around love, abjection and discontent. Medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect present readers with the lost history of what we call the medievalism of the medievals. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past. The book ranges across literary and historical texts, but is equally attentive to material culture and its problematic witness to the reality of the historical past.
Jeanne Halgren Kilde
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195143416
- eISBN:
- 9780199834372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195143418.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
After the Civil War, population growth, industrialization, and urbanization significantly affected evangelical congregations. As many established congregations decided to move away from their ...
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After the Civil War, population growth, industrialization, and urbanization significantly affected evangelical congregations. As many established congregations decided to move away from their original downtown locations and build churches in the new suburbs, church mission, location, and architectural style became intertwined. The trend toward medievalism and the widespread adoption of the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style underscored the domestic or member‐focused internal mission of congregations while at the same time indicating their perception of the risky nature of outreach and evangelizing missions in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods. Resembling armories, these buildings articulated middle‐class ambivalence toward urban life, at once safely sheltering members yet also providing a redoubt from whence forays into the broader community could be launched. This chapter uses a case study approach to investigate congregations and their church buildings, and includes Lovely Lane Church in Baltimore, designed by architect Stanford White, and Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver, designed by Robert S. Roeschlaub among several buildings examined.Less
After the Civil War, population growth, industrialization, and urbanization significantly affected evangelical congregations. As many established congregations decided to move away from their original downtown locations and build churches in the new suburbs, church mission, location, and architectural style became intertwined. The trend toward medievalism and the widespread adoption of the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style underscored the domestic or member‐focused internal mission of congregations while at the same time indicating their perception of the risky nature of outreach and evangelizing missions in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods. Resembling armories, these buildings articulated middle‐class ambivalence toward urban life, at once safely sheltering members yet also providing a redoubt from whence forays into the broader community could be launched. This chapter uses a case study approach to investigate congregations and their church buildings, and includes Lovely Lane Church in Baltimore, designed by architect Stanford White, and Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver, designed by Robert S. Roeschlaub among several buildings examined.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to ...
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For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to this question, furnished by the pioneering scholar of medieval literary studies, Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long history. While Trigg's signature methodological framework acts as a springboard for the vibrant conversation that characterises this collection, each chapter offers an inspiring extension of her scholarly insights. The varied perspectives of the outstanding contributors attest to the vibrancy and the advancement of debates in Chaucer studies: thus, formerly rigid demarcations surrounding medieval literary studies, particularly those concerned with Chaucer, yield in these essays to a fluid interplay between Chaucer within his medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur engagement with the past; the significance of the history of emotions; and the relationship of textuality with subjectivity according to their social and ecological context. Each chapter produces a distinctive and often startling interpretation of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies and methodologies employed in this volume by leading thinkers in medieval literary criticism will stimulate exciting and timely insights for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in the relationship between medieval literature, the intervening centuries and contemporary cultural change.Less
For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to this question, furnished by the pioneering scholar of medieval literary studies, Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long history. While Trigg's signature methodological framework acts as a springboard for the vibrant conversation that characterises this collection, each chapter offers an inspiring extension of her scholarly insights. The varied perspectives of the outstanding contributors attest to the vibrancy and the advancement of debates in Chaucer studies: thus, formerly rigid demarcations surrounding medieval literary studies, particularly those concerned with Chaucer, yield in these essays to a fluid interplay between Chaucer within his medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur engagement with the past; the significance of the history of emotions; and the relationship of textuality with subjectivity according to their social and ecological context. Each chapter produces a distinctive and often startling interpretation of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies and methodologies employed in this volume by leading thinkers in medieval literary criticism will stimulate exciting and timely insights for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in the relationship between medieval literature, the intervening centuries and contemporary cultural change.
Chris Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808509
- eISBN:
- 9781496808547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808509.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
The comic book has become an essential icon of the “American Century,” an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by the recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. ...
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The comic book has become an essential icon of the “American Century,” an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by the recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged, endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts.
Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow is the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it has to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant, and in the narrative of Red Sonja we can trace a parallel history of Feminism.
This study began as a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress (the worlds’ largest repository of comic books). It offers a reception history of medievalist comics, contextualizing them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. It illuminates some of the ways in which we use our imagined past to navigate the present, and it plots some possible futures as we transition into the “Asian Century.”Less
The comic book has become an essential icon of the “American Century,” an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by the recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged, endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts.
Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow is the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it has to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant, and in the narrative of Red Sonja we can trace a parallel history of Feminism.
This study began as a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress (the worlds’ largest repository of comic books). It offers a reception history of medievalist comics, contextualizing them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. It illuminates some of the ways in which we use our imagined past to navigate the present, and it plots some possible futures as we transition into the “Asian Century.”
Joshua Davies
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526125934
- eISBN:
- 9781526136220
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526125934.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book is a study of cultural memory in and of the British Middle Ages. It works with material drawn from across the medieval period – in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material ...
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This book is a study of cultural memory in and of the British Middle Ages. It works with material drawn from across the medieval period – in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture – and explores modern translations, reworkings and appropriations of these texts to examine how images of the past have been created, adapted and shared. It interrogates how cultural memory formed, and was formed by, social identities in the Middle Ages and how ideas about the past intersected with ideas about the present and future. It also examines how the presence of the Middle Ages has been felt, understood and perpetuated in modernity and the cultural possibilities and transformations this has generated. The Middle Ages encountered in this book is a site of cultural potential, a means of imagining the future as well as imaging the past. The scope of this book is defined by the duration of cultural forms rather than traditional habits of historical periodization and it seeks to reveal connections across time, place and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. It reveals a transtemporal and transnational archive of the modern Middle Ages.Less
This book is a study of cultural memory in and of the British Middle Ages. It works with material drawn from across the medieval period – in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture – and explores modern translations, reworkings and appropriations of these texts to examine how images of the past have been created, adapted and shared. It interrogates how cultural memory formed, and was formed by, social identities in the Middle Ages and how ideas about the past intersected with ideas about the present and future. It also examines how the presence of the Middle Ages has been felt, understood and perpetuated in modernity and the cultural possibilities and transformations this has generated. The Middle Ages encountered in this book is a site of cultural potential, a means of imagining the future as well as imaging the past. The scope of this book is defined by the duration of cultural forms rather than traditional habits of historical periodization and it seeks to reveal connections across time, place and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. It reveals a transtemporal and transnational archive of the modern Middle Ages.
Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer, and Martin Heale (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
The Making of the Middle Ages arises from a series of lectures organized by the Liverpool Centre of Medieval Studies and is sponsored by the University of Liverpool. The following essays, largely ...
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The Making of the Middle Ages arises from a series of lectures organized by the Liverpool Centre of Medieval Studies and is sponsored by the University of Liverpool. The following essays, largely concerned with the period from the eighteenth century onwards, provide a thoughtful consideration on how and when the scientific study of the Middle Ages has had an impact on more popular perceptions, and include the work of historians, historian-philologists, and students of art, architecture and literature.Less
The Making of the Middle Ages arises from a series of lectures organized by the Liverpool Centre of Medieval Studies and is sponsored by the University of Liverpool. The following essays, largely concerned with the period from the eighteenth century onwards, provide a thoughtful consideration on how and when the scientific study of the Middle Ages has had an impact on more popular perceptions, and include the work of historians, historian-philologists, and students of art, architecture and literature.
R. Howard Bloch
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620207
- eISBN:
- 9781789623727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620207.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
R. Howard Bloch’s text explores Mallarmé’s linguistic links to antiquity and the medieval era. With a close reading of ‘Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard’—Mallarmé’s epic final, and perhaps ...
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R. Howard Bloch’s text explores Mallarmé’s linguistic links to antiquity and the medieval era. With a close reading of ‘Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard’—Mallarmé’s epic final, and perhaps most famous, poem—Bloch attends to the publication history of the text, its typographic layout, and its medieval philological underpinnings.Less
R. Howard Bloch’s text explores Mallarmé’s linguistic links to antiquity and the medieval era. With a close reading of ‘Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard’—Mallarmé’s epic final, and perhaps most famous, poem—Bloch attends to the publication history of the text, its typographic layout, and its medieval philological underpinnings.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of ...
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This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of Stephanie Trigg.Less
This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of Stephanie Trigg.
John M. Ganim
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
John Ganim unpacks William Morris’s eroticised but anxious politics in News from Nowhere. Ganim highlights the significance of the emotional attachment to environment in the formulation of Morris’s ...
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John Ganim unpacks William Morris’s eroticised but anxious politics in News from Nowhere. Ganim highlights the significance of the emotional attachment to environment in the formulation of Morris’s utopia. He also considers the enabling influence of the medieval dream vision, especially Chaucer’s, for promoting ‘psychological experience and fantasy’. Both themes illuminate Morris’s conflicted approach to subjects that caused him discomfort due to his perverse familial situation.Less
John Ganim unpacks William Morris’s eroticised but anxious politics in News from Nowhere. Ganim highlights the significance of the emotional attachment to environment in the formulation of Morris’s utopia. He also considers the enabling influence of the medieval dream vision, especially Chaucer’s, for promoting ‘psychological experience and fantasy’. Both themes illuminate Morris’s conflicted approach to subjects that caused him discomfort due to his perverse familial situation.
Louise D’Arcens
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
From the earliest manuscript images through to cinematic depictions, Chaucer’s ‘persone’, that is his face and body, has been a key focus in the pursuit of transhistorical intimacy with the author. ...
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From the earliest manuscript images through to cinematic depictions, Chaucer’s ‘persone’, that is his face and body, has been a key focus in the pursuit of transhistorical intimacy with the author. Chaucer’s physical self has been portrayed repeatedly across subsequent centuries in an array of media. Drawing upon the hermeneutic concept of Einfühlung (‘feeling into’) to examine the long ‘empathetic afterlife’ enjoyed by Chaucer’s ‘persone’, D’Arcens explores what Chaucer’s face and body have come to mean to post-medieval audiences; she traces how these differences intersect with the constantly changing nature of Chaucer’s legacy, especially as he and his work have been deemed to reflect national literary and comic traditions.Less
From the earliest manuscript images through to cinematic depictions, Chaucer’s ‘persone’, that is his face and body, has been a key focus in the pursuit of transhistorical intimacy with the author. Chaucer’s physical self has been portrayed repeatedly across subsequent centuries in an array of media. Drawing upon the hermeneutic concept of Einfühlung (‘feeling into’) to examine the long ‘empathetic afterlife’ enjoyed by Chaucer’s ‘persone’, D’Arcens explores what Chaucer’s face and body have come to mean to post-medieval audiences; she traces how these differences intersect with the constantly changing nature of Chaucer’s legacy, especially as he and his work have been deemed to reflect national literary and comic traditions.
Nadia R. Altschul
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226016214
- eISBN:
- 9780226016191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226016191.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter introduces into an understanding of Bello's scholarship the association of Spain with the Islamic Orient that was prevalent in the nineteenth century. In particular, it charts the ...
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This chapter introduces into an understanding of Bello's scholarship the association of Spain with the Islamic Orient that was prevalent in the nineteenth century. In particular, it charts the rejection of this “internal Orient” that Bello needed to accomplish in order to construct inner continuities between Spanish America and Europe by focusing on the Venezuelan's study of Castilian assonance, considered as a peculiarity inherited from Iberian–Arabic interminglings during the Middle Ages. The book closes with a “Coda” offering a reexamination of the discussion on criollo medievalism and settler postcolonial studies.Less
This chapter introduces into an understanding of Bello's scholarship the association of Spain with the Islamic Orient that was prevalent in the nineteenth century. In particular, it charts the rejection of this “internal Orient” that Bello needed to accomplish in order to construct inner continuities between Spanish America and Europe by focusing on the Venezuelan's study of Castilian assonance, considered as a peculiarity inherited from Iberian–Arabic interminglings during the Middle Ages. The book closes with a “Coda” offering a reexamination of the discussion on criollo medievalism and settler postcolonial studies.
Chris Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808509
- eISBN:
- 9781496808547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808509.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
A general overview of the monograph that unpacks some of the technical apparatus, contextualises the argument, and gives a chapter-by-chapter run through.
A general overview of the monograph that unpacks some of the technical apparatus, contextualises the argument, and gives a chapter-by-chapter run through.
Chris Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808509
- eISBN:
- 9781496808547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808509.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
The final of the comic book chapters is a study of the 21st-century series Northlanders. What makes this comic book so interesting for the purposes of this study is not its medievalism, but rather ...
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The final of the comic book chapters is a study of the 21st-century series Northlanders. What makes this comic book so interesting for the purposes of this study is not its medievalism, but rather its lack thereof. The characters in Northlanders think, behave and speak like film-noir gangsters, as the blood feuds and conquests of the northern Dark Ages mutate into barrio-style turf wars and gangland vendettas. The writer of the series made no attempt to portray the ontology of his Norse subjects or to represent historically the multifaceted culture from which they sprang—his goal was to produce a crime series based on seminal Yakuza films from the 1970s.Less
The final of the comic book chapters is a study of the 21st-century series Northlanders. What makes this comic book so interesting for the purposes of this study is not its medievalism, but rather its lack thereof. The characters in Northlanders think, behave and speak like film-noir gangsters, as the blood feuds and conquests of the northern Dark Ages mutate into barrio-style turf wars and gangland vendettas. The writer of the series made no attempt to portray the ontology of his Norse subjects or to represent historically the multifaceted culture from which they sprang—his goal was to produce a crime series based on seminal Yakuza films from the 1970s.
Chris Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808509
- eISBN:
- 9781496808547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808509.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter consists of an extended meditation upon the nature and historical expression of medievalism and the historiographical links between medievalism and feudalism, a term more commonly ...
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This chapter consists of an extended meditation upon the nature and historical expression of medievalism and the historiographical links between medievalism and feudalism, a term more commonly encountered in European, especially French, commentary.Less
This chapter consists of an extended meditation upon the nature and historical expression of medievalism and the historiographical links between medievalism and feudalism, a term more commonly encountered in European, especially French, commentary.
Joshua Davies
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526125934
- eISBN:
- 9781526136220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526125934.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter is the first extended study of the Eleanor Crosses. Commissioned by Edward I and built in the years immediately following Eleanor’s death in 1290, the monuments fashioned an idealised ...
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This chapter is the first extended study of the Eleanor Crosses. Commissioned by Edward I and built in the years immediately following Eleanor’s death in 1290, the monuments fashioned an idealised image of Eleanor that stands distinct from the historical record but which defined cultural memories of her. Over time, however, what were once memorials to an individual woman came to signify a more general sense of loss, melancholy and nostalgia that signified differently in particular times and places. E. M. Barry’s refashioned Charing Cross of the 1860s is but one of a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century monuments that self-consciously repeated and reflected the medieval precedents of the Eleanor Crosses to create an idealised image of the medieval past. This chapter traces the reception, recreation and influence of the crosses in postmedieval England.Less
This chapter is the first extended study of the Eleanor Crosses. Commissioned by Edward I and built in the years immediately following Eleanor’s death in 1290, the monuments fashioned an idealised image of Eleanor that stands distinct from the historical record but which defined cultural memories of her. Over time, however, what were once memorials to an individual woman came to signify a more general sense of loss, melancholy and nostalgia that signified differently in particular times and places. E. M. Barry’s refashioned Charing Cross of the 1860s is but one of a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century monuments that self-consciously repeated and reflected the medieval precedents of the Eleanor Crosses to create an idealised image of the medieval past. This chapter traces the reception, recreation and influence of the crosses in postmedieval England.
Pauline Stafford
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
In this introductory chapter, Pauline Stafford attempts to establish the definition of Medievalism in terms of art, culture, history, and general worldview. She foregrounds the origins of ...
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In this introductory chapter, Pauline Stafford attempts to establish the definition of Medievalism in terms of art, culture, history, and general worldview. She foregrounds the origins of Medievalism, and outlines its dependence on the periodization which distinguishes the middle ages, while drawing attention to Medievalism’s history in Merseyside specifically. By explaining how the following essays attempt to piece together theoretical standpoints on Medievalism, Stafford asks what can we ever really know about the middle ages?Less
In this introductory chapter, Pauline Stafford attempts to establish the definition of Medievalism in terms of art, culture, history, and general worldview. She foregrounds the origins of Medievalism, and outlines its dependence on the periodization which distinguishes the middle ages, while drawing attention to Medievalism’s history in Merseyside specifically. By explaining how the following essays attempt to piece together theoretical standpoints on Medievalism, Stafford asks what can we ever really know about the middle ages?
T. M. Charles-Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
‘The Lure of Celtic Languages, 1850–1914’, written by T. M. Charles-Edwards, asks what drew Johann Caspar Zeuss and Holger Pederson to work on the Celtic and what, more importantly, kept them working ...
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‘The Lure of Celtic Languages, 1850–1914’, written by T. M. Charles-Edwards, asks what drew Johann Caspar Zeuss and Holger Pederson to work on the Celtic and what, more importantly, kept them working in this field even after, very often, their initial concerns had been satisfied.Less
‘The Lure of Celtic Languages, 1850–1914’, written by T. M. Charles-Edwards, asks what drew Johann Caspar Zeuss and Holger Pederson to work on the Celtic and what, more importantly, kept them working in this field even after, very often, their initial concerns had been satisfied.
Ian Wood
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
‘The Use and Abuse of the Early Middle Ages, 1750–2000’, written by Ian Wood, provides an unbalanced account of the basic development of interpretations of the early middle ages, and the contexts in ...
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‘The Use and Abuse of the Early Middle Ages, 1750–2000’, written by Ian Wood, provides an unbalanced account of the basic development of interpretations of the early middle ages, and the contexts in which those interpretations evolved. Wood dedicates the majority of his essay to a small number of readings of the Frankish past, which he argues have been forgotten.Less
‘The Use and Abuse of the Early Middle Ages, 1750–2000’, written by Ian Wood, provides an unbalanced account of the basic development of interpretations of the early middle ages, and the contexts in which those interpretations evolved. Wood dedicates the majority of his essay to a small number of readings of the Frankish past, which he argues have been forgotten.
David Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
‘Whatever Happened to Your Heroes? Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages’, written by David Matthews, is explicitly concerned with the ‘re-organization of knowledge’, seen as at work already in the ...
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‘Whatever Happened to Your Heroes? Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages’, written by David Matthews, is explicitly concerned with the ‘re-organization of knowledge’, seen as at work already in the later eighteenth century. In the context of this re-organization, this essay examines the post-medieval presentation of these English heroes up until the later eighteenth century, considering the implications of their disappearance.Less
‘Whatever Happened to Your Heroes? Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages’, written by David Matthews, is explicitly concerned with the ‘re-organization of knowledge’, seen as at work already in the later eighteenth century. In the context of this re-organization, this essay examines the post-medieval presentation of these English heroes up until the later eighteenth century, considering the implications of their disappearance.
Helen Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781846310683
- eISBN:
- 9781786945334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310683.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
‘Nature, Masculinity, and Suffering Women: The Remaking of the Flower and the Leaf and Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women in the Nineteenth Century’, written by Helen Philips, examines particular links ...
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‘Nature, Masculinity, and Suffering Women: The Remaking of the Flower and the Leaf and Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women in the Nineteenth Century’, written by Helen Philips, examines particular links between Chaucer the Nature poet and gender issues in the Nineteenth Century.Less
‘Nature, Masculinity, and Suffering Women: The Remaking of the Flower and the Leaf and Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women in the Nineteenth Century’, written by Helen Philips, examines particular links between Chaucer the Nature poet and gender issues in the Nineteenth Century.
