Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine), author.

Trigg, Stephanie, author.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21.

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Medieval.

Middle Ages in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.

Contents:

Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice

1. The space of time and the medievalist imaginary

2. Wonderful things

3. Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages

4. Loving the past

5. Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-147) and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526147998

1526147998

9781526142009

1526142007

9781526126870

1526126877

OCLC:

1240713242