The United States of medievalism / edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pugh, Tison, editor.

Aronstein, Susan Lynn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism--United States.

Medievalism.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

History.

United States.

Civilization--Medieval influences.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

United States--Civilization--Medieval influences.

Civilization.

Europe--History--476-1492--Influence.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation's communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American. The volume's chapters visit the nation's many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California's San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City's churches, Boston's gardens, Philadelphia's Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando's Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota's Viking Villages, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the Las Vegas Strip. As Pugh, Aronstein, and their fellow essayists take the reader on this cross-country trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation's medievalized spaces. In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of the Middle Ages on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Building the American Middle Ages

1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge / Kathleen Coyne Kelly

2. Philadelphia's Medieval(ist) Jewels: Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Glencairn, and More / Kevin J. Harty

3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, DC / Laurie A. Finke

4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siecle / Alfred Thomas

pt. Two Living in the American Middle Ages

5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Adanta / Richard Utz

6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross / Candace Barrington

7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones / Jana K. Schulman

8. "I Yearned for a Strange Land and a People That Had the Charm of Originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia / Alison Gulley

9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism / Lowell Gallagher

pt. Three Playing in the American Middle Ages

10. Orlando's Medieval Heritage Project / Susan Aronstein

11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans's Medievalisms / Candace Barrington

12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary Texas / Lorraine Kochanske Stock

13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City / Martin B. Shichtman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: United States of medievalism.

ISBN:

1487525087

9781487525088

1487507380

9781487507381

OCLC:

1223012026

Publisher Number:

99988448805