Rethinking the New Medievalism

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Rethinking the New Medievalism

Statement of responsibility

edited by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, Jeanette Patterson

Contributor

• Bloch, R. Howard
• Calhoun, Alison, 1979-
• Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline
• Küpper, Joachim
• Patterson, Jeanette

Subject

• Civilization, Medieval -- Social aspects
• Criticism, Textual
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
• Medievalism
• Middle Ages in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term 'new medievalism' to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist and moved beyond a narrow focus on language to examine the broader social and cultural contexts in which literary works were composed and disseminated. Within the field, this transformation of medieval studies was as important as the genetic revolution to the study of biology and has had an enormous influence on the study of medieval literature. Rethinking the New Medievalism offers both a historical account of the movement and its achievements while indicating--in Nichols's innovative spirit--still newer directions for medieval studies. The essays deal with questions of authorship, theology, and material philology and are written by members of a wide philological and critical circle that Nichols nourished for forty years."--Publisher's Web site

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN671

LC item number

.R48 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography