Medievalisms in a Global Age

<b>Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa from Manila to New York.</b><br><br>Across the world revivals of medieval practices images and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a Global Middle Ages explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism the tentative forging of a global medieval imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections dealing with Local Spaces and Global Geographies. The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of medieval pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to <i>The O-Trilogy</i> of Maurice Gee Camus and Dungeons and Dragons.