Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent /
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (154 pages) - Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice -- The space of time and the medievalist imaginary -- Wonderful things -- Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages -- Loving the past -- Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction.
This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
9781526126870 9781526142009
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Medievalism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Middle Ages in literature.
Electronic Books.
CB353 / .A344 2019 D116
Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (154 pages) - Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice -- The space of time and the medievalist imaginary -- Wonderful things -- Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages -- Loving the past -- Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction.
This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
9781526126870 9781526142009
Middle Ages--Historiography.
Medievalism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Middle Ages in literature.
Electronic Books.
CB353 / .A344 2019 D116