International Medievalism And Popular Culture

Author : Louise D'Arcens,Andrew Lynch
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604978643

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International Medievalism and Popular Culture by Louise D'Arcens,Andrew Lynch Pdf

Today medievalism is increasingly intelligible as a cultural lingua franca, produced in trans- and international contexts with a view to reaching popular international audiences, some of mass scope. This book offers new perspectives on international relations and how global concerns are made available through contemporary medievalist texts. It questions how research in medievalism may help us rethink the terms of internationalism and globalism within popular cultures, ideologies, and political formations. It investigates how the diverse media of medievalism (print; film and television; arts and crafts; fashion; digital media; clubs and fandom) affect its cultural meaning and circulation, and its social function, and engage questions of desire, gender and identity construction. As a whole, International Medievalism and Popular Culture differs from those studies which have concentrated on imaginative appropriations of the middle ages for domestic cultural contexts. It investigates rather how contemporary cultures engage with medievalism to map and model ideas of the international, the trans-national, the cosmopolitan and the global. This book includes examples from Europe, Britain, North America, Australia and the Arab world. It discusses the formation and the impact of popular medievalism in the globalised worlds of Braveheart, Disney and Harry Potter, but it also explores how the contemporary medieval imaginary generates international cultural perspectives, for example in considering Middle Eastern reception of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, the Byzantinism of Julia Kristeva, and Hedley Bull's postnationalist 'new medievalism'. International Medievalism in Popular Culture is an important contribution to medieval studies, cultural studies, and historical studies. It will be of value to undergraduate, postgraduate and academic readers, as well as to all interested in popular culture or medievalism.

Author : Josie P. Campbell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0879723394

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Popular Culture in the Middle Ages by Josie P. Campbell Pdf

The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."

Author : Helen Young
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781621967484

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The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre by Helen Young Pdf

This fascinating study places multiple genres in dialogue and considers both medievalism and genre to be frameworks from which meaning can be produced. It explores works from a wide range of genres-children's and young adult, historical, cyberpunk, fantasy, science fiction, romance, and crime-and across multiple media-fiction, film, television, video games, and music. The range of media types and genres enable comparison, and the identification of overarching trends, while also allowing comparison of contrasting phenomena. As the first volume to explore the nexus of medievalism and genre across such a wide range of texts, this collection illustrates the fractured ideologies of contemporary popular culture. The Middle Ages are more usually, and often more prominently, aligned with conservative ideologies, for example around gender roles, but the Middle Ages can also be the site of resistance and progressive politics. Exploring the interplay of past and present, and the ways writers and readers work engage with them demonstrates the conscious processes of identity construction at work throughout Western popular culture. The collection also demonstrates that while scholars may have by-and-large abandoned the concept of accuracy when considering contemporary medievalisms, the Middle Ages are widely associated with authenticity, and the authenticity of identity, in the popular imagination; the idea of the real Middle Ages matters, even when historical realities do not. This book will be of interest to scholars of medievalism, popular culture, and genre.

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 3110096005

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Understanding Popular Culture by Steven L. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Helen Young,Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009122412

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Global Medievalism by Helen Young,Kavita Mudan Finn Pdf

The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, but we see only a fraction of them through the stories and travels of the characters. Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe as either the whole world or the centre of it, by making them visible and offering alternative perspectives. How does popular culture represent medievalist worlds as global-connected by the movement of people and objects? How do imagined mobilities allow us to create counterstories that resist Eurocentric norms? This study represents the start of what will hopefully be a fruitful and inclusive conversation of what the Middle Ages did, and should, look like.

Author : Louise D'Arcens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 9780198825944

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World Medievalism by Louise D'Arcens Pdf

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.

Author : Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000460217

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Medieval Popular Culture by Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich Pdf

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295192

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Teaching the Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Author : KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845416

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Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy by KellyAnn Fitzpatrick Pdf

The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.

Author : Karl Fugelso,Vincent Ferre,Alicia C. Montoya
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844068

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Medievalism on the Margins by Karl Fugelso,Vincent Ferre,Alicia C. Montoya Pdf

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.

Author : Sandra Gorgievski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476686981

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Representing the Crusades by Sandra Gorgievski Pdf

How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today? Have the medieval images of chivalric and military heroes survived the eras of Orientalism and decolonization? The first of its kind, this comparative study examines representations of the Crusades in both European and Arab medieval texts and in 20th and 21st century transmedia recreations. It follows the cartography and illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages through modern, hybridized narratives in novels, film, comics and gaming. The shifting literary tastes, political agendas and cultural exchanges of audiences on both sides of the Mediterranean reflect their anxieties and ideals.

Author : Boaz Shoshan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894298

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Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo by Boaz Shoshan Pdf

Elite and that of the people. This book presents a stimulating discussion of a subject previously only touched upon. The author tests his theories against similar phenomena in European society and with reference to several standard authorities in anthropology and social history. Popular culture in medieval Cairo will, therefore, be of interest to students and specialists in Middle Eastern studies and also to medieval historians.

Author : Karl Alvestad,Adrienne Merritt,Robert Houghton,Andrew B.R. Elliott,Helen Young
Publisher : New Directions in Medieval Stu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350266001

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The Middle Ages in Modern Culture by Karl Alvestad,Adrienne Merritt,Robert Houghton,Andrew B.R. Elliott,Helen Young Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Bringing together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media – ranging from television and film to architecture – and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study addresses three connected themes. Firstly, how does historical accuracy relate to authenticity, and whose version of authenticity is accepted? Secondly, how are the middle ages presented in modern media and why do inaccuracies emerge and persist in these works? Thirdly, how do creators of modern content attempt to produce authentic medieval environments, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of accurate portrayals? The result is nuanced study of medieval culture which sheds new light on the use (and misuse) of medieval history in modern media.

Author : Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Mary Boyle,Mary Boyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846062

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International Medievalisms by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Mary Boyle,Mary Boyle Pdf

Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands: "Internationally Nationalist", "Someone Else's Past?", and "Activist Medievalism". Medievalism - the reception of the Middle Ages - often invokes a set of tropes generally considered 'medieval', rather than consciously engaging with medieval cultures and societies. International medievalism offers an additional interpretative layer by juxtaposing two or more national cultures, at least one of which is medieval. 'National' can be aspirational: it might refer to the area within agreed borders, or to the people who live there, but it might also describe the people who understand, or imagine, themselves to constitute a nation. And once 'medieval' becomes simply a collection of ideas, it can be re-formed as desired, cast as more geographically than historically specific, or function as a gateway to an even more nebulous past. This collection identifies and investigates international medievalism through three distinct strands, 'Internationally Nationalist', 'Someone Else's Past?', and 'Activist Medievalism', exploring medievalist media from the textual to the architectural. Subjects range from The Green Children of Woolpit to Refugee Tales, and from Viking metal to Joan of Arc. As the contributors to each section make clear, for centuries the medieval has provided material for countless competing causes and cannot be contained within historical, political, or national borders. The essays show how the medieval is repeatedly co-opted and recreated, formed as much as formative: inviting us to ask why, and in service of what.

Author : Michael Mullett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424430

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Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Michael Mullett Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to show how the political outlook of the lower classes arose from the moral attitudes contained in their culture, a culture that was deeply suffused by Christianity. Unlike upper-class culture, popular culture is resistant to change and has to be studied over a long period – in this case the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Because its themes – popular social values, riot and revolt – are pervasive over both time and space, the book’s geographical coverage is extensive, taking in most of western and central Europe.