Studies in Medievalism IX (1997) - Medievalism and the Academy, I

Workman, Leslie J., Metzger, David, Verduin, Kathleen, Ward, Antonia, Anna Smol, Anna

ISBN 10: 0859915328 / ISBN 13: 9780859915328

Published by Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in Medievalism IX (1997) - Medievalism and the Academy, I
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859915328
• ISBN 13: 9780859915328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.565 pounds

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Synopsis

The first of a two-volume examination of medievalism and academic scholarship, this collection is divided into four sections: Canonizing Chaucer, Antiquarian loomings, Medievalism, medieval studies, and Medieval studies at the millennium.

Medievalism, the "continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground between artisticand popular constructions of the middle ages and the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval invention) in the face of technological assault; the politics of the nineteenth-century academy (F.W. Furnival and others); the editorial practice of Sidney Lanier; and the cultural canonization of Chaucer.

Contributors: DAVID O. MATTHEWS, STEVE ELLIS, ANTONIA WARD, GRAHAM PARRY, MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS, ANNA SMOL, DAVID ALLAN, MATILDE MATEO, MARYA DEVOTO, ULRIKE WIETHAUS, STEPHEN STEELE, JAMES KENNEDY, WILLIAM CALIN, JESSE D. HURLBUT, JOAN GRENIER-WINTHER, WILLIAM PADEN

About the Authors

GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of English and Related Literature at University of York, York, UK.

Margaret Clunies Ross is an Emeritus Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Honorary Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has written extensively on Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, poetry and myth.