Medievalism and the Modernist Temper (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) - Softcover

Bloch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801850878 ISBN 13: 9780801850875

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This text explores modern conceptions of cultural patterns in the Middle Ages. It aims to bring medievalists into confrontation with the notion of medievalism itself, in order to chart the directions the field has taken in the past and may take in the future.

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Review

"A highly welcome addition to understanding the meandering path of medevial studies becasue it sheds light on the particular ideological, regional, nationalistic, religious, or personal histories of the 'charter members' of that discipline." -- Richard J. Utz, Arthuriana

"This collection of essays recasts most of the established 'facts' of the last century of medival studies, by so doing it not only provides postmodernist conceptions of medevial cultural patterns but also contributes to the sociology of knowledge in the humanities. This volume can serve as a fine introduction to current trends in medieval studies and as a critical survey of the last century of scholarship." -- The Reader's Review

About the Author

R. Howard Bloch is chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. His books include Medieval French Literature and Law, Etymologies and Genealogies, and The Scandal of the Fabliaux. Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beal Professor of French at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The New Medievalism, edited with Marina S. Brownlee and Kevin Brownlee, which is also available from Johns Hopkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801850878
• ISBN 13: 9780801850875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504