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Film and fiction : reviewing the Middle Ages / edited by Tom Shippey with Martin Arnold, associate editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in medievalism ; 0738-7164 12.
- Studies in medievalism, 0738-7164 ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Middle Ages in literature.
- Medievalism in literature.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- Middle Ages in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 2003.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is too important to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval images - and also, it must be said, their dangerousness and often their falsity.
- Of the ten essays in this volume, several examine modern movies, including the highly-successful A Knight's Tale (Chaucer as a PR agent) and the much-derided First Knight (the Round Table fights the Gulf War). Others deal with the appropriation of history and literature by a variety of interested parties: William Langland discovered as a prophet of future Socialism, Chaucer at once venerated and tidied into New England respectability. Vikings, Normans and Saxons are claimed as forebears and Victorian melodrama provides the cliches of 'the bad baronet' who revives the droit de seigneur and the 'bony grasping hand' of the Catholic Church and its canon lawyers.
- Contents:
- Arthurian melodrama, Chaucerian spectacle, and the waywardness of cinematic pastiche in First knight and A Knight's Tale / Nickolas Haydock
- Modern mystics, medieval saints / Gwendolyn Morgan
- Seeking the human image in The Advocate / William F. Woods
- Harold in Normandy: history and romance / Carl Hammer
- The day of a thousand years: Winchester's 1901 commemoration of Alfred the Great / Joanne Parker
- Eric Brighteyes : Rider Haggard rewrites the sagas / Jn̤a Hammer
- "Biddeth Peres Ploughman go to his werk": appropriation of Piers Plowman in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Paul Hardwick
- What Tales of a Wayside Inn tells us about Longfellow and about Chaucer / William Calin
- Bad baronets and the curse of medievalism / Clare A. Simmons
- "The bony grasping hand": nineteenth century American protestant views on medieval canon law / Bruce Brasington.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1846151570
- 9781846151576
- Publisher Number:
- 99960037026
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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