The Shock of Medievalism Biddick Hardback MD – Duke University Press

The Shock of MedievalismAuthor(s): Kathleen Biddick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822321828, 978-0822321828\nSynopsis\nIn The Shock of Medievalism Kathleen Biddick explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. By pairing debates over current academic trends and issues with innovative readings of medieval texts, Biddick exposes the presuppositions of the field of medieval studies and significantly shifts the objects of its historical inquiry. \nBiddick describes how the discipline of medieval studies was defined by a process of isolation and exclusion-a process that not only ignored significant political and cultural issues of the nineteenth century but also removed the period from the forces of history itself. Wanting to separate themselves from popular studies of medieval culture, and .