An Open Access Review Journal Encouraging Critical Engagement with the Continuing Process of Inventing the Middle Ages

January 1, 2009

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The following, continually updated titles are meant as a first introduction to the joyously interdisciplinary character of studies in medievalism. For additional titles, please consult the Tables of Contents for Studies in Medievalism and The Year’s Work in Medievalism, and Richard Utz and Aneta Dygon, “Medievalism and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies,” Perspicuitas (2002). See further this site's Timeline for an attempt at a comprehensive history of Medievalism since the nineteenth century.

Alexander, Michael, Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
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Aurell, Jaume, “El Nuevo Medievalismo y la Interpretacion de los Textos Historicas,” Hispania. Revista Espanola de Historia 66 (2006), 809-32.

Barnes, Geraldine, “The Norse Discovery of America and the American Discovery of Norse (1828-1892),” Studies in Medievalism XI (2001), 167-88.

Biddick, Kathleen, The Shock of Medievalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998).

Bloch, R. Howard, and Stephen G. Nichols, eds., Medievalism and the Modernist Temper (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Brownlee, Marina S., Kevin Brownlee, and Stephen G. Nichols, eds., The New Medievalism (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

Camille, Michael, “Philological Iconoclasm: Edition and Image in the Vie de Saint Alexis,” Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, ed. R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 371-401.

Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages. The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (New York: Morrow, 1991).

D’Arcens,Louise, “From Holy War to Border Skirmish: The Colonial Chivalry of Sydney’s First Professors,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30:3 (2000), 519-45.

De Prospo, R. C., “The Patronage of Medievalism in Modern American Historiography,” Medievalism in American Culture: Special Studies, ed. Bernard Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach (Binghamton, NY: SUNY Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984), pp. 1-15.

Fleischmann, Suzanne, “Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Grammar: A Case Study from Old French,” Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, ed. R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 402-37.

Frantzen, Allen J. Desire For Origins. New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990). 

---, ed., Speaking Two Languages. Traditional Disciplines and Contemporary Theory in Medieval Studies (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991).

Gentry, Francis G., and Ulrich Müller, “The Reception of the Middle Ages in Germany: An Overview,” Studies in Medievalism III/4 (Spring 1991), 399-422.

Girouard, Mark. Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (London: ????, 1981).

Gleijzer, Richard, “Medievalism with New Historicism: A Question of Doctrine,” The Year’s Work in Medievalism X (1995), 215-27.

Greetham, David, “Romancing the Text, Medievalizing the Book,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 409-31.

Hamos, Andrea, “The Middle Ages and Modern Oral Traditions: The Case of Spanish Biblical Ballads,” The Year’s Work in Medievalism X (1995), 135-42.

Heinzle, Joachim, ed., Modernes Mittelalter. Neue Bilder einer populären Epoche (Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1994).

Horka-Follick, Lorayne Ann, Los Hermanos Penitentes. A Vestige of Medievalism in Southwestern United States (Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1969).

Jauss, Hans Robert, Alterität und Modernität in der mittelalterlichen Literatur (Munich: Fink, 1977).

Leupin, Alexandre, “The Middle Ages, The Other,” Diacritics (Fall 1983), 22-31. Linton, Ruth C., “The Glory of the Gothic: Interior Decor and the Gothic Revival,” Medievalism in American Culture: Special Studies, ed. Bernard Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach (Binghamton, NY: SUNY Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984), pp. 65-87.

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Matthews, David, "Chaucer's American Accent," American Literary History 22.4 (2010), pp. 758-672.

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Morgan, Gwendolyn, “Gnosticism, The Middle Ages, and the Search for Responsibility: Immortals in Popular Fiction,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 317-27.

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Paden, William D. “Reconstructing the Middle Ages: The Monk’s Sermon in The Seventh Seal,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 289-305.

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Petersen, Nils Holger, “’In Rama Sonat Gemitus...’ The Becket Story in a Danish Medievalist Music Drama, A Vigil for Thomas Becket,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 341-58.

Richter, David H., “From Medievalism to Historicism: Representations of History in the Gothic Novel and Historical Romance,” Studies in Medievalism 4 (1992), 79-104.

Rosenthal, Bernard, “Medievalism and the Salem Witch Trials,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 61-68.

Sears, Theresa Ann, “Medievalism and the Construction of Authority in Conquest Narratives,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 15-26.

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Trigg, Stephanie, “The Traffic in Medieval Women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism and Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998), 5-29.

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Utz, Richard J., “Resistance to the (New) Medievalism? Comparative Deliberations on (National) Philology, Mediävalismus, and Mittelalter-Rezeption in Germany and North America,” The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Roger Dahood (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 151-70.

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Verduin, Kathleen, “Medievalism, Classicism, and the Fiction of E. M. Forster,” Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 264-86.

Watson, Steve, “Touring the Medieval: Tourism, Heritage and Medievalism in Northumbria,” Studies in Medievalism XI (2001), 239-61.

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