Medievalism and the Academy, I
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Edited book. Medievalism, the "continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground between artistic and popular constructions of the middle ages and the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval invention) in the face of technological assault; the politics of the nineteenth-century academy (F.W. Furnival and others); the editorial practice of Sidney Lanier; and the cultural canonization of Chaucer. [Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780859915328
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
D.S. Brewer
City
Rochester, NY
Keywords
Professional studies, Medievalism, Middle ages, Humanities
Disciplines
European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies
Recommended Citation
Workman, Leslie J. (Editor); Verduin, Kathleen (Editor); and Metzger, David D. (Editor), "Medievalism and the Academy, I" (1999). English Faculty Bookshelf. 26.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_books/26