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Medieval imagery in today's politics /Daniel Wollenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: [Leeds] : Arc Humanities Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781942401414
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CB353 .M435 2018
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Contents:
Extremes : the Middle Ages on the fringe -- Inheritance, roots, traditions : discovering medieval origins -- Anxious returns : the new feudalism and new medievalism -- Postscript. The eternal return of the medieval.
Subject: Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity, especially by writers and politicians on the far right. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. Daniel Wollenberg examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Getting political -- Extremes : the Middle Ages on the fringe -- Inheritance, roots, traditions : discovering medieval origins -- Anxious returns : the new feudalism and new medievalism -- Postscript. The eternal return of the medieval.

Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity, especially by writers and politicians on the far right. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. Daniel Wollenberg examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.

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