Title: Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020 (Middle Ages and Popular Culture)
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3837670589
ISBN 13: 9783837670585
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.

About the Authors

Hans Rudolf Velten is a professor of Medieval German literature and language at Universit�t Siegen. He is currently principal investigator in the research program (SFB) �Transformationen des Popul�ren� and has widely published in the fields of vernacular medieval literature and cultural theory. His research interests are in literature and culture of the late middle ages and early modern period, historical anthropology, theater history of the 15th and 16th centuries, and medievalism.

Joseph Imorde was a professor of art history at Universit�t Siegen until 2021 and is a principal investigator in the research program (SFB) �Transformationen des Popul�ren�. Since 2022 he has been a professor of art history and vice president at the Kunsthochschule Wei�ensee in Berlin. His research centers on the historiography of art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnography.

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