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Author:   Bettina Bildhauer (Lecturer in German, Lecturer in German, University of St Andrews) ,  Chris Jones (Senior Lecturer, School of English, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   208
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.854kg
ISBN:  

9780197266144

ISBN 10:   0197266142
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   28 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones: Introduction: The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first-century Perspectives Part One: Medievalism in Politics and Histories 2: Bruce Holsinger: Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism 3: Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly, and Kath Stevenson: 'The North Remembers': The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish Political Culture 4: Patrick Geary: Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries 5: Andrew Lynch: War, Church, Empire, and the Medieval in British Histories for Children Part Two: Practising Medievalism 6: Felicitas Hoppe: 'Adventure? What is that?' On Iwein 7: James Robinson: Saints' Cults and Celebrity 8: Graham Coatman: Is Medieval Music the New Avant-Garde? The Wilful, the Wayward, and the Playful 9: Fani Gargova: Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens 10: Chris Jones: Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World 11: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn: Forging 'Medieval' Identities: Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of Life Part Three: Medievalism in Literature and Culture 12: Elizabeth Robertson: Chaucer and Wordsworth's Vivid Daisies 13: Conor McCarthy: Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's The Inferno and The Táin 14: Bettina Bildhauer: Visuality, Violence, and the Return of the Middle Ages: Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an Adaptation of the Nibelungen Story 15: Carolyn Dinshaw: Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making 16: Roland Betancourt: The Medium is the Byzantine: Popular Culture and the Byzantine

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It is a feast of literature and medievalism. I hope you enjoy it. Terry Jones, Chaucerian and Pythonist

`It is a feast of literature and medievalism. I hope you enjoy it.' Terry Jones, Chaucerian and Pythonist

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Bettina Bildhauer works on medieval German literature and culture in a European context, especially on material things, blood, monstrosity, bodies, gender and the limits of the human. Her work on medievalist film has been published in Filming the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2011), and The Middle Ages on Film, an essay collection co-edited with Anke Bernau (Manchester University Press 2009). Chris Jones teaches medieval and medievalist literature at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely in these fields, including the critically acclaimed Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (OUP, 2006).

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