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Affect
Author_Stephanie Trigg
Author_Thomas A. Prendergast
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Death
disciplinarity
Disciplinary
Discontent
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Future
Love
Medieval
medieval studies
Medievalism
Modernity
Nostalgia
Product details
- ISBN 9781526126863
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect readers in the present with the lost history of what may be called the ‘medievalism of the medievals’. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past.
Thomas A. Prendergast is Professor of English at the College of Wooster
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne
