Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Extent: 263, 263 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1998)

ISBN: 9782503508047

Price: $38.00

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Synopsis

The fourteen essays presented in this volume contribute substantially to the study of the reinvention of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and most address the relatively new field of Medievalism. All of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to promote its own opinions, beliefs, doctrines or views. In particular, the volume demonstrates that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by a nationalistic desire to create cultural ‘roots’, to discover origins that justify a regime or group’s self-identity, to appropriate a cultural icon or neglected author for a particular political agenda, or to reflect on contemporary social issues via a remote time and place. Reworkings or adaptations of earlier culture often tell us more about the age in which they were produced than the one revived or revisited. This volume features five essays that treat medieval subjects; four focus on Tudor and Stuart figures, religion or politics; and five concentrate on nineteenth-century uses of medieval or early modern events, literary conventions, settings and themes.

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Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 23

Edited by Frederick Kiefer

Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 45

Edited by Eugene Clay

Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange

in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 12

Edited by James P Helfers

Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 47

Edited by M. L. Brown

At the Table

Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Volume 18

Edited by Timothy J Tomasik Edited by Juliann M Vitullo

Virgil and Renaissance Culture

Volume 42

edited by L. B. T. Houghton and M. Sgarbi

Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms

Volume 5

Edited by Curtis Perry

Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 43

Edited by Robert Bjork

Fear and its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 6

Edited by Anne Scott Edited by Cynthia Kosso

Paradigm Shifts During the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 44

Edited by Albrecht Classen

Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 7

Edited by Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 41

Edited by Mark Cruse

Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery

Volume 39

By (author) I. Moulton

Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 8

Edited by Ian Moulton

Book of Nature and Humanity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Volume 29

Edited by David Hawkes Edited by Richard G Newhauser

Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research

Volume 2

Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 28

Edited by Robert S Sturges

Crossing Boundaries

Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 3

Poverty and Prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Volume 19

Edited by Anne Scott Edited by Cynthia Kosso

Peace and Negotiation

Strategies for Co-existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Volume 4

Edited by Diane Wolfthal

Translatio or the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Modes and Messages

Volume 13

Edited by Laura H Hollengreen

Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology

Volume 46

Edited by Thomas Willard

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