Medievalism (eBook)

A Manifesto

Richard Utz (Autor)

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2017
107 Seiten
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-942401-24-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the inclusion of medieval studies in the modern academy, professional scholars have insisted on distinguishing their work from extra-academic lovers of medieval culture. Richard Utz analyzes the semantic, institutional, and sociopolitical history of the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. He provides a survey of how scholars' exteriorization of amateur interest in the medieval past narrowed the epistemological range of medieval scholarship and how reception studies, feminism, and postmodernism gradually expanded modern pastist approaches to the Middle Ages. Utz advances specific examples for reconnecting investigating scholarly subjects with their subjects of investigation, and he challenges scholars to make a conscious effort to engage in public scholarship and explore inclusive gestures toward the contributions non-academic lovers of the Middle Ages can offer. His manifesto advocates an active integration of academic medievalists' work within the many other equally valuable artistic and sociopolitical partner contexts of reading the medieval past.

Autor

Richard Utz is chair and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.

Rezensionen

"Medievalism: A Manifesto aims to do nothing less than to reform the ways in which we think about academic engagement with the Middle Ages, and with medievalism as a whole. [...] [Utz presents] a fundamental, challenging, and difficult intervention aimed squarely at those who may not want to listen, and who, for that precise reason, most urgently need to do so." Andrew B. R. Elliott, University of Lincoln; review in Arthuriana "This book-especially its final chapter, which comprises the real 'manifesto' of the volume-should be required reading for every medieval studies Ph.D., and taped to the door of many a public history professor." Paul B. Sturtevant, The Public Medievalist "[Medievalism: A Manifesto] is a great little book-deliberately accessible, off-beat, and provocative. [...] Importantly, it really is a book with messages for all medievalists, not just those already consciously engaged more narrowly with the reception of medieval history and culture." James Palmer, University of St Andrews; "On Utz's Medievalism Manifesto," online at Merovingian World

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 4 illus.
• Verlagsort: Kalamazoo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Medievalism • Medieval Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-942401-24-8 / 1942401248
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942401-24-7 / 9781942401247