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Bad Medievalism and the modernity problem / Kathy Lavezzo.
De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2025- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavezzo, Kathy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--History.
- Racism.
- Medievalism.
- medievalism (cultural movement).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages.
- Contents:
- Introduction : race, affect, periodization
- Modernity, the medieval, and the feel of periodization
- “Between then and now” : the veil of periodization
- Whiteness, medievalism, immigration : rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall
- Stuart Hall’s Piers Plowman
- High theory, low feelings : Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Cafe
- Tradition and the individual Black talent : contesting Malory and modernism in The Fisher King.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 11, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lavezzo, Kathy. Bad Medievalism and the modernity problem.
- ISBN:
- 9781531512439
- 1531512437
- 9781531512422
- 1531512429
- OCLC:
- 1535622098
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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