Joshua Davies

Visions and ruins

Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9781526125934
• ISBN-10: 1526125935
• Artikelnr.: 50701750

Autorenporträt

Joshua Davies is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Ruins and wonders: the politics of cultural memory in and of
early medieval England 2 Queen Eleanor and her crosses: trauma and memory,
medieval and modern 3 Medievalist double consciousness and the production
of difference: medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy 4
The language of gesture: untimely bodies and contemporary performance
Afterword: migrations Index