The theme of this volume is the role of memory in post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In addressing subjects that range from Victorian portraits of Anglo-Saxons to cabaret performances of chansons and from linguistic nationalism in Ivanhoe to masturbatory allegory in A Confederacy of Dunces, the contributors discuss some of the many ways in which the medieval period has been remembered, revived, recycled, revered, and, at times, reviled. They thus open new windows onto the manner in which our culture defines, and continues to be defined by, one of the most complex and protean parts of its past.
Contributors: CHRIS BISHOP, MARK P. BRUCE, MARY CATHERINE DAVIDSON, ELIZABETH EMERY, DOMINIC MANGANIELLO, LAHNEY PRESTON-MATTO, TISON PUGH, RICHARD UTZ, JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI
Reviews
In this, its most recent manifestation, the journal certainly maintains its status as the principal vehicle for the publication of research into the middle ages after the middle ages. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
Details
First Published: 19 Apr 2007
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843841159
Pages: 210
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series:
Studies in MedievalismSubject:
Medieval LiteratureBIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 02 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 Editorial Note
- 2 From Cabaret to Lecture Hall: Medieval Song as Cultural Memory in the Performances of Yvette Guilbert
- 3 Hic iacet Arthurus? Situating the Medieval King in English Renaissance Memory
- 4 Remembering our Saxon Forefathers: Linguistic Nationalism in Ivanhoe
- 5 Civilizing the Savage Ancestor: Representations of the Anglo-Saxons in the Art of Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 6 "It's prolly fulla dirty stories": Masturbatory Allegory and Queer Medievalism in John Kennedey Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
- 7 Heaney's Sweeney Astray: Acts of Omission, Translation, and a New Medievalism
- 8 Dante and Wendell Berry's Modern Book of Memory
- 9 Creating Scottish Nationalism: English Translations of the Fourteenth- Century Declaration of Arbroath
- 10 Juggling the Middle Ages: The Reception of Our Lady's Tumbler and Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame
- 11 Notes on Contributors
