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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"medievalism"”.
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… hegemonic forms of masculinity, imperialism, and medievalism, over a span of nearly a hundred years, as they intersect with the reception and adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory’s chivalric ideals.
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
This thesis concerns the means by which the notion of medieval or premodem magic (and the occult or hidden) is articulated and theorized within the humanities. While anthropology has frequently contended with the issue of magic's problematic agency within scholarly discourse, the historiography of …
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The medieval ideal: Utopian medievalism in the life, thought, and works of William Morris
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
This thesis explores the place of medieval French literature in the formation of national identity in sixteenth-century France. It focuses on an unpublished and little-studied manuscript miscellany, the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de mémoire en la lecture d’aucuns autheurs …
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
… medieval fantasy and how the cultural concept of medievalism is formed through popular media. Throughout the essay, the imagery of curiosity cabinets is evoked as a way of describing modular formats which provide space for the individual while maintaining a cohesive sense of the whole. I describe …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
… medium through which to analyze pop culture medievalisms—the creative tensions that exists between medieval culture and the way it is reimagined, recreated, or reproduced in the present. By using medievalist studies of cinema as a model, I argue that many of the medievalist representations on …
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The style of meditation: a conductor's analysis of selected motets by Rihards Dubra
… music can be classified in many ways, Neo-Medievalism, Holy Minimalism, or by his own words "the style of meditation." It is not by astoundingly well spun melodic lines or amazingly complex harmonic structures that Dubra's music is propelled, it is in the simple juxtaposition and …
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Based on a true history?: The impact of popular "Medieval Film" on the public understanding of the Middle Ages
… this thesis have implications for medieval (and medievalism) studies, public history, and for the delivery of history in primary, secondary and higher education.
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… including his pragmatism and ideas relating to medievalism. His interest in Gothic Revival and antiquarian study is examined as part of his mission to revive seigneurial rights and establish his comparatively new dynasty amongst Britain’s leading nobility. I argue that his use of heraldry and …
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On a Quest for Manhood: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities and Male Maturation in Contemporary Arthurian Adaptations for Adolescents
… queer theory, adaptation theory, narratology, medievalism studies, and young adult literature criticism. It draws on theoretical and empirical research from various disciplines, including sociology, psychology, history, and literature. Research on Arthuriana for adolescents has been dominated …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
This dissertation investigates depictions of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
<p>This essay examines how art and gender become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the …
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Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature
<p>This thesis surveys the children's literary accounts of Anglo-Saxon history and literature that have been written since the mid-nineteenth century. Authors of different ages emphasize different aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture as societal need for and interpretation of the past change. In studying …
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Returning the King: the Medieval King in Modern Fantasy
In an interview with Hy Bender, Neil Gaiman states, "We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories." While fantasy stands apart from other types of fiction, it still provides a particular kind of commentary on the culture/time it is being …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
<p>This essay promotes the writing and illustrating of middle grade literature that mirrors the wonder-inducing experiences of leafing through an illuminated manuscript and stepping into a Gothic cathedral. An examination of Catholic medieval visual culture moves into a discussion on its underlying …