Medievalism
A Manifesto
Published on 18. January 2017
107 pages
978-1-942401-03-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since the inclusion of medieval studies in the modern academy, professional scholars have insisted on distinguishing their work from extra-academic lovers of medieval culture. Richard Utz analyzes the semantic, institutional, and sociopolitical history of the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. He provides a survey of how scholars' exteriorization of amateur interest in the medieval past narrowed the epistemological range of medieval scholarship and how reception studies, feminism, and postmodernism gradually expanded modern pastist approaches to the Middle Ages. Utz advances specific examples for reconnecting investigating scholarly subjects with their subjects of investigation, and he challenges scholars to make a conscious effort to engage in public scholarship and explore inclusive gestures toward the contributions non-academic lovers of the Middle Ages can offer. His manifesto advocates an active integration of academic medievalists' work within the many other equally valuable artistic and sociopolitical partner contexts of reading the medieval past.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 Abbildungen
4 Illustrations, black and white
File size
2,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-942401-03-2 (9781942401032)
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Utz Richard :
Richard Utz is chair and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.
Richard Utz is chair and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.
Content
What's Love Got To Do With It? Our Middle Ages, Ourselves
Don't Know Much About the Middle Ages? Toward Flat(ter) Futures of Engagement
Intervention One: Residual Medievalisms in Eastern Bavaria
Intervention Two: Race and Medievalism at Atlanta's Rhodes Hall
Intervention Three: Medievalism, Religion, and Temporality
Manifesto: Six (Not So) Little Medievalisms
Don't Know Much About the Middle Ages? Toward Flat(ter) Futures of Engagement
Intervention One: Residual Medievalisms in Eastern Bavaria
Intervention Two: Race and Medievalism at Atlanta's Rhodes Hall
Intervention Three: Medievalism, Religion, and Temporality
Manifesto: Six (Not So) Little Medievalisms
