Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent /

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine) (Author), Trigg, Stephanie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019].
Series:	Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21.
Subjects:	Middle Ages > Historiography. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Middle Ages in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice
The space of time and the medievalist imaginary
Wonderful things
Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages
Loving the past
Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction.