Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526147998)

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.

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast, Stephanie Trigg
ISBN-10: 1526147998
ISBN-13: 9781526147998
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2020
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d