Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.
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.
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
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).
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.
