Medieval History
- Maurice Keen, Historian (1933-2012)
Until the second world war, most British medieval historians avoided cultural history, remaining more concerned with the church, government or the law; institutions and politics. Except for the literate pious, what might have made medieval people tick...
- Richard Utz Reviews Medievalisms. Making The Past In The Present
Richard Utz recently reviewed Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl's Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), for The Medieval Review. This coauthored volume may very well be the first book on medievalism(s)...
- Memory And Medievalism
Volume XV of Studies in Medievalism, expertly edited by Karl Fugelso, centers on the topic of Memory and Medievalism. It contains the following contributions: From Cabaret to Lecture Hall: Medieval Song as Cultural Memory in the Performances of Yvette...
- Disney's Medievalisms
Call for Papers: ?Disney?s Medievalisms? > From medieval fairs to modern films, the industries of popular culture continually revisit and reinvent the Middle Ages, entertaining audiences while generating a profit. And Disney?s--both Walt?s and the Corporation?s?contribution...
- Newsletter Of The Southern African Society For Medieval And Renaissance Studies
The first Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for 2009 has been posted at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/ To whet your appetite, I?ve copied a summary of its contents below. The sidebar of the website...
Medieval History
Randy Schiff Reviews: Pugh, Queer Chivalry
See Randy P. Schiff's recent review of: Tison Pugh, Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
As the massive criticism of Confederate flags that followed the June 17, 2015 massacre of nine African-American innocents at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina makes clear, symbols of Southern militarism remain a volatile force in America. The most recognizable Confederate flag, the Battle Flag of the Army of North Virginia, elicits such powerful responses because it is so overdetermined, communicating not just the history of violent rebellion and its defeat, but also racist resistance to Reconstruction and integration, nostalgic notions of Southern honor and history, and acute regionalist affect. In Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature, Tison Pugh offers a powerful study of fantasies related to the medieval militarist ideology of chivalry inflecting literary treatments of ?white southern masculinity? (1) in post-1950s US Southern fiction. Offering both a broad vision of romantic medievalism?s seminal role in Southern literature and a range of engaging individual analyses, Pugh?s monograph will please readers of medieval and modern literature alike. READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE.
- Maurice Keen, Historian (1933-2012)
Until the second world war, most British medieval historians avoided cultural history, remaining more concerned with the church, government or the law; institutions and politics. Except for the literate pious, what might have made medieval people tick...
- Richard Utz Reviews Medievalisms. Making The Past In The Present
Richard Utz recently reviewed Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl's Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (New York: Routledge, 2013), for The Medieval Review. This coauthored volume may very well be the first book on medievalism(s)...
- Memory And Medievalism
Volume XV of Studies in Medievalism, expertly edited by Karl Fugelso, centers on the topic of Memory and Medievalism. It contains the following contributions: From Cabaret to Lecture Hall: Medieval Song as Cultural Memory in the Performances of Yvette...
- Disney's Medievalisms
Call for Papers: ?Disney?s Medievalisms? > From medieval fairs to modern films, the industries of popular culture continually revisit and reinvent the Middle Ages, entertaining audiences while generating a profit. And Disney?s--both Walt?s and the Corporation?s?contribution...
- Newsletter Of The Southern African Society For Medieval And Renaissance Studies
The first Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for 2009 has been posted at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/ To whet your appetite, I?ve copied a summary of its contents below. The sidebar of the website...