Medievalism

<p>The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works seeking inspiration from them or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period geography or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to provide such a framework by calling into question the problematic yet commonly accepted vocabulary used in Medievalism Studies. The contributions by leading scholars in the field define and exemplify in a lively and accessible style the essential terms used when speaking of the later reception of medieval culture.</p><p>The terms: Archive Authenticity Authority Christianity Co-disciplinarity Continuity Feast Genealogy Gesture Gothic Heresy Humor Lingua Love Memory Middle Modernity Monument Myth Play Presentism Primitive Purity Reenactment Resonance Simulacrum Spectacle Transfer Trauma Troubadour</p><p>Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State University (Montclair NJ USA); Richard Utz is Chair and Professor of Medievalism Studies in the School of Literature Media and Communication at Georgia Tech (Atlanta GA USA).</p><p>Contributors: Nadia Altschul Martin Arnold Kathleen Biddick William C. Calin Martha Carlin Pam Clements Michael Cramer Louise D'Arcens Elizabeth Emery Elizabeth Fay Vincent Ferré Matthew Fisher Karl Fugelso Jonathan Hsy Amy S. Kaufman Nadia Margolis David Matthews Lauryn S. Mayer Brent Moberly Kevin Moberly Gwendolyn Morgan Laura Morowitz Kevin D. Murphy Nils Holger Petersen Lisa Reilly Edward Risden Carol L. Robinson Juanita Feros Ruys Tom Shippey Clare A. Simmons Zrinka Stahuljak M. Jane Toswell Richard Utz Angela Jane Weisl.</p>