The making of the Middle Ages : Liverpool essays / edited by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costambeys, Marios, editor.

Hamer, Andrew (Andrew J.), editor.

Heale, Martin, 1974- editor.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Medievalism--England--Liverpool.

Medievalism.

Cultural property--England--Liverpool.

Cultural property.

Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching--England--Liverpool.

Civilization, Medieval.

Liverpool (England)--History--To 1500.

Liverpool (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Liverpool's contribution to the modern construction of the middle ages is here recognized for the first time. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Merseyside have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as Celtic philology and manuscript collecting, each in their own way contributing to our steadily deepening understanding of the real middle ages, and to the widening use to which images of the middle ages have been put. Merseyside presents in microcosm the different building blocks of the modern middle ages. In addition to its local focus, this book therefore also examines some of the most significant aspects of the modern study of the middle ages in the round. It offers fresh perspectives, from leading experts in their fields, on medieval Celtic languages, on English poetic literature, on heroes, on pageantry, on mystery plays, and on the effect of nationalist perspectives on the writing of medieval history. Tracing the burgeoning appreciation, in Merseyside and beyond, of the period in which the city was founded, this collection of essays is a fitting commemoration of Liverpool's octocentenary.

Contents:

Introduction / Pauline Stafford

The lure of Celtic languages, 1850-1914 / T.M. Charles-Edwards

The use and abuse of the early Middle Ages, 1750-2000 / Ian Wood

Whatever happened to your heroes? : Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages / David Matthews

Nature, masculinity, and suffering women : the remaking of the Flower and the leaf and Chaucer's Legend of good women in the nineteenth century / Helen Phillips

Riding with Robin Hood : English pageantry and the making of a legend / John Marshall

The antiquarians and the critics : the Chester plays and the criticism of early English drama / David Mills

Making the Old North on Merseyside : a tale of three ships / Andrew Wawn

Early nineteenth-century Liverpool collectors of late medieval illuminated manuscripts / Edward Morris

Liverpool's Lorenzo de Medici / Arline Wilson

Secular Gothic revival architecture in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool / Joseph Sharples.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

ISBN:

1-78694-533-9

1-84631-416-X

OCLC:

476209086