Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern EnglandYale University Press, 2007 M01 1 - 306 pages The style of the medieval period, which flows through the bloodstream of western culture, was vigorously re-established in post-Enlightenment England. This one-volume history of the Medieval Revival is the first coherent account of it, especially those aspects that are expressed and reflected in literature. The book focuses on the period 1760 to 1971, with an Epilogue on the reverberations of medievalism in the present day. The rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, after its destruction by fire in 1834, re-established Gothic as the national style. But medieval imitation manifests itself wherever one cares to look: in literature, architecture, the applied arts, religion, politics, and even Hollywood. In this skilled dissection of the components of this pervasive cultural movement, Michael Alexander rejects the idea that medievalism was confined to the Victorian period, and overturns the suspicion that it is by its nature escapist. |
Contents
The Advent of the Goths | 1 |
Chivalry Romances and Revival | 22 |
Dim Religious Lights | 50 |
Residences for the Poor | 65 |
Back to the Future in the 1840s | 84 |
The Death of Arthur was the Favourite Volume | 105 |
History the Revival and the | 127 |
History and Legend | 149 |
The Working Men and the Common Good | 165 |
Among the Lilies and the Weeds | 193 |
Modernist Medievalism | 227 |
Twentiethcentury Christendom | 245 |
Riding through the glen | 262 |
Bibliography | 284 |
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