Studies in Medievalism XI - 9780859916264

Studies in Medievalism XIAppropriating the Middle Ages: Scholarship, Politics, Fraud\nAuthor(s): Tom Shippey, Martin Arnold, Betsy Bowden, Geraldine Barnes, John B Friedman, Judith Johnston, Richard Utz, Rolf H. Bremmer, Sophie van Romburgh, Steve Watson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859916264, 978-0859916264\nSynopsis\nStudies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary cultural world.\n\nThe middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their own purposes. This issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and Merovingian history, for the.