Calin Reviews
Medieval History

Calin Reviews


See William Calin's recent review, in Medievally Speaking, of Vincent Ferré, ed., Médiévalisme. Modernité du Moyen Âge (2010).

Vincent Ferré, "Introduction (I). Médiévalisme et théorie: pourquoi maintenant?": 7-25.  This is the longest and most important essay in the collection.  Ferré observes pertinently that, although work ? good work ? on the presence of the Middle Ages in the post-medieval cultures has been published in France, going back to the Poitiers La Licornecollection of 1982, the term médiévalisme, employed in our sense of "medievalism," dates from 2007. Ferré modestly avoids a personal plaudit; nevertheless, it would appear that he introduced the neologism into French.  He offers a rich, five-page (21-5) bibliography of French medievalism ? specifically the works cited in his essay.  Ferré is fully aware of the Anglo-American origins of the field... READ the REST of the REVIEW HERE




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