Medievalism : a manifesto / Richard Utz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Utz, Richard J., 1961- author.

Series:

Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)

Past imperfect

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism.

Civilization, Medieval.

Medievalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 95 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is called a manifesto because it has an unapologetically political objective. Richard Utz wants to help reform the way we think about and practise our academic engagement with medieval culture, and he uses his own observations as a medievalist and medievalism-ist over the last twenty-five years to offer ways in which we might reconnect with the general public that has allowed us to become, since the late nineteenth century, a rather exclusive clan of specialists who communicate mostly with each other. The traditional academic study of the Middle Ages, after more than a century of growing and plateauing, is now on the decline. While, at least over the next five to ten years, we will still be basking in the reassuring proximity (at conferences) of thousands of others who are involved in what we do ourselves, there is a manifest discrepancy between the large number of students who request that we address their love of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and medieval-themed video and computer games, and the decreasing number of actual medievalists hired to replace retiring colleagues. We should pursue more lasting partnerships with so-called amateurs and enthusiasts for the sake of a sustainable future engagement with medieval culture. Richard Utz suggests some ways we might do this, and looks forward to 'a more truly co-disciplinary, inclusive, democratic, and humanistic engagement with what we call, for better or worse, the Middle Ages'.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Chapter 1: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Our Middle Ages, Ourselves

Chapter 2: Don’t Know Much about the Middle Ages? Towards Flat(ter) Futures of Engagement

Chapter 3: Intervention One: Residual Medievalisms in Eastern Bavaria

Chapter 4: Intervention Two: Race and Medievalism at Atlanta’s Rhodes Hall

Chapter 5: Intervention Three: Medievalism, Religion, and Temporality

Chapter 6: Manifesto: Six (Not So) Little Medievalisms

Further Reading

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95).

ISBN:

9781641899000

164189900X

9781942401032

1942401035

OCLC:

1012882140