Studies in Medievalism XII

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Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages

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Studies in Medievalism

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The middle ages provide the material for mass-market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is too important to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval images - and also, it must be said, their dangerousness and often their falsity. Of the ten essays in this volume, several examine modern movies, including the highly-successful A Knight's Tale (Chaucer as a PR agent) and the much-derided First Knight/ (the Round Table fights the Gulf War). Others deal with the appropriation of history and literature by a variety of interested parties: King Alfred press-ganged for the Royal Navy and the burghers of Winchester in 1901, William Langland discovered as a prophet of future Socialism, Chaucer at once venerated and tidied into New England respectability. Vikings, Normans and Saxons are claimed as forebears and disowned as losers in works as complex as Rider Haggard's Eric Brighteyes, at once neo-saga and anti-saga. Victorian melodrama provides the cliches of 'the bad baronet' who revives the droit de seigneur (but baronets are notoriously modern creations); and of the 'bony grasping hand' of the Catholic Church and its canon lawyers (an image spread in ways eerily reminiscent of the modern 'urban legend' in its Internet forms). Contributors: BRUCE BRASINGTON, WILLIAM CALIN, CARL HAMMER, JONA HAMMER, PAUL HARDWICK, NICKOLAS HAYDOCK, GWENDOLYN MORGAN, JOANNE PARKER, CLARE A. SIMMONS, WILLIAM F. WOODS. Professor TOM SHIPPEY teaches in the Department of English at the University of St Louis; Dr MARTIN ARNOLD teaches at University College, Scarborough.

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CLARE A. SIMMONS is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

Release date Australia

January 23rd, 2003

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Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Contributions by Bruce Brasington
Contributions by Carl Hammer
Contributions by Clare A Simmons
Contributions by Gwendolyn Morgan
Contributions by Joanne Parker
Contributions by Jona Hammer
Contributions by Nickolas Haydock
Contributions by Paul Hardwick
Edited by Martin Arnold
Edited by Tom Shippey

Pages

266

Series

Studies in Medievalism

Dimensions

163x246x21

ISBN-13

9780859917728

Product ID

2836042

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