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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: United States of medievalism
  name:
    name part: Pugh, Tison
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Aronstein, Susan Lynn
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 323 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation's communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American. The volume's chapters visit the nation's many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California's San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City's churches, Boston's gardens, Philadelphia's Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando's Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota's Viking Villages, Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Las Vegas Strip. As Pugh, Aronstein, and their fellow essayists take the reader on this cross-country trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation's medievalized spaces. In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of the Middle Ages on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages.
  table of contents: Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Philadelphia's Medieval(ist) Jewels: Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Glencairn, and More / Kevin J. Harty -- The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, DC / Laurie Finke -- Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siècle / Alfred Thomas -- Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta / Richard Utz -- Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross / Candace Barrington -- Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones / Jana K. Schulman -- "I Yearned for a Strange Land and a People That Had the Charm of Originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia / Alison Gulley -- Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism / Lowell Gallagher -- Orlando's Medieval Heritage Project / Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein -- Saints and Sinners: New Orleans's Medievalisms / Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington -- Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary Texas / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City / Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman.
  note: edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-307) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Medievalism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Medieval influences
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 476-1492
    topic: Influence
  classification: CB353 .U554 2021
  classification: 306.0973/09051
  identifier: 1487525087
  identifier: 9781487525088
  identifier: 1487507380
  identifier: 9781487507381
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 201120
    record change date: 20220105155537.0
    record identifier: in00004361551
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng