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Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.The
discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the
"e;makers"e; of the Middle 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 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). Nadia Altschul, Martin
Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin, Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer,
Louise D'Arcens, Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferre, 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.
discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the
"e;makers"e; of the Middle 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 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). Nadia Altschul, Martin
Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin, Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer,
Louise D'Arcens, Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferre, 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.
297 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 20, 2014
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