Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World

by Kathleen Davis

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World

Author: Kathleen Davis

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN: 9780801893209

Page: 456

View: 292

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.

Power and Time

by Dan Edelstein

... Kathleen Davis, Periodization and Sovereignty (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 77–102; Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul, eds.,
Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, ...

Power and Time

Author: Dan Edelstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 022648162X

Page: 435

View: 163

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies

by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

... Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World : The Idea of the Middle Ages ' Outside
Europe , Baltimore , MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Davis , R . H . C . (
1976 ) , The Normans and Their Myth , London : Thames and Hudson . Dawson ...

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Author: Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Publisher: Postcolonial Literary Studies

ISBN:

Page: 188

View: 247

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial studies and medieval studies.

Medievalisms

by Tison Pugh

Simon Gikandi, “Africa and the Signs of Medievalism,” Medievalisms in the
Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe, ed. Kathleen
Davis and Nadia Altschul (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 369
–82, ...

Medievalisms

Author: Tison Pugh

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0415617278

Page: 176

View: 501

"From Harry Potter and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by one of the leading contemporary scholars of Medieval literature, and explores: - The influence of medieval cultural concepts on key authors such as Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, George Eliot and Mark Twain - The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as King Arthur and Robin Hood - The influence of the medieval on disciplines such as politics, music, film, and art. Medievalisms surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the Medieval period through to the twenty-first century"--

Postcolonial George Eliot

by Oliver Lovesey

Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul's recent edited collection, Medievalisms in the
Postcolonial World (2009), adds an “s” to “medievalism,” expanding its temporal,
spatial, and theoretical domains beyond its Eurocentric disciplinary origins and ...

Postcolonial George Eliot

Author: Oliver Lovesey

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137332123

Page: 310

View: 957

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Medievalisms

by Liliana Sikorska

Howe , Nicholas 2005 “ Anglo - Saxon England and the postcolonial void ” , in :
Ananya Jahanara Kabir – Deanne ... 2005 Postcolonial approaches to the
European Middle Ages . ... Newsome , David 1997 The Victorian world picture .

Medievalisms

Author: Liliana Sikorska

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

ISBN:

Page: 229

View: 713

The continuous interest in medieval literature, history and culture, has resulted in a significant number of works on medievalism. Medievalism, however, has many faces, which range from motifs and themes loosely connected with the Middle Ages, to works set in the period. This book explores all such diverse aspects of medievalism and attempts to show the different ways in which consecutive literary periods appropriated medieval literature and culture.

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

by Nadia R. Altschul

Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan ...

Geographies of Philological Knowledge

Author: Nadia R. Altschul

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226016196

Page: 240

View: 155

Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain’s national epic, the Poem of the Cid. Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello’s study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a “coloniality of knowledge.” Altschul reveals how, during the nineteenth century, the framework for philological scholarship established in and for core European nations—France, England, and especially Germany—was exported to Spain and Hispanic America as the proper way of doing medieval studies. She argues that the global designs of European philological scholarship are conspicuous in the domain of disciplinary historiography, especially when examining the local history of a Creole Hispanic American like Bello, who is neither fully European nor fully alien to European culture. Altschul likewise highlights Hispanic America’s intellectual internalization of coloniality and its understanding of itself as an extension of Europe. A timely example of interdisciplinary history, interconnected history, and transnational study, Geographies of Philological Knowledge breaks with previous nationalist and colonialist histories and thus forges a new path for the future of medieval studies.

Exchanges in Exoticism

by Megan Moore

... Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Kathleen Davis and Nadia
Altschul, Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Medieval Ages
” Outside Europe; Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, Postcolonial
Moves: ...

Exchanges in Exoticism

Author: Megan Moore

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

ISBN: 1442661372

Page: 200

View: 856

Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa

by Moha Ennaji

His research focuses on identity and ethnicity, postcolonial studies, film, and
literature. ... Dis-Orienting the Orient: Amin Maalouf's Uses of the 'Medieval'” in
Medievalisms in the Post-colonial World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa

Author: Moha Ennaji

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1317813626

Page: 312

View: 679

Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region– and in the Arab world at large – has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend – albeit a contested one – toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity, whilst discouraging, or even forbidding, minority political mobilization. The central theoretical premise of this book is that North Africa is a multicultural region, where culture is inherently linked to politics, religion, gender, and society, and a place where democracy is gradually taking root despite many political and economic hurdles. Addressing the lacuna in literature on this issue, this book opens new avenues of thought and research on diversity, linking policy based on cultural difference to democratic culture and to social justice. Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa will be of use to students and researchers with an interest in Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Political Science more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

by John H. Arnold

... <http://www.historians.org/info/aha_history/spiegel.cfm>. 56. G. Spiegel, '
Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of the Middle Ages Outside
Europe', Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 15 (2011), 617–
625. 57.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

Author: John H. Arnold

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191015016

Page: 640

View: 978

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

by M. Williams

Cohen, The Postcolonial Middle Ages,and Nadia Altschul and Kathleen Davis,
eds., Medievalisms inthe Postcolonial World: The Idea of “The Middle Ages”
Outside Europe(Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press, 2009). 25. “
Midcolonial ...

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Author: M. Williams

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 1137057262

Page: 207

View: 402

From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.

Politics of Temporalization

by Nadia R. Altschul

In Politics of Temporalization, Altschul examines the case of South America to ask more broadly what is at stake—what is harmed, what is excused—when the present is temporalized, when elements of "the now" are characterized as belonging ...

Politics of Temporalization

Author: Nadia R. Altschul

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 0812297202

Page: 288

View: 981

A postcolonial study of the conceptualization of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America as medieval and oriental If Spain and Portugal were perceived as backward in the nineteenth century—still tainted, in the minds of European writers and thinkers, by more than a whiff of the medieval and Moorish—Ibero-America lagged even further behind. Originally colonized in the late fifteenth century, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil were characterized by European travelers and South American elites alike as both feudal and oriental, as if they retained an oriental-Moorish character due to the centuries-long presence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula. So, Nadia R. Altschul observes, the Scottish metropolitan writer Maria Graham (1785-1842) depicted the Chile in which she found herself stranded after the death of her sea captain husband as a premodern, precapitalist, and orientalized place that could only benefit from the free trade imperialism of the British. Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-1888), the most influential Latin American writer and statesman of his day, conceived of his own Euro-American creole class as medieval in such works as Civilization and Barbarism: The Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga (1845) and Recollections of a Provincial Past (1850), and wrote of the inherited Moorish character of Spanish America in his 1883 Conflict and Harmony of the Races in America. Moving forward into the first half of the twentieth century, Altschul explores the oriental character that Gilberto Freyre assigned to Portuguese colonization in his The Masters and the Slaves (1933), in which he postulated the "Mozarabic" essence of Brazil. In Politics of Temporalization, Altschul examines the case of South America to ask more broadly what is at stake—what is harmed, what is excused—when the present is temporalized, when elements of "the now" are characterized as belonging to, and consequently imposed upon, a constructed and othered "past."

Postmodern Medievalisms

by Richard J. Utz

... were slow coaches in world adventure led Hakluyt . . . back through Macham
and Mandeville and Madoc to scrape the ... through the postmodern and
postcolonial approaches which are everywhere enlivening the study of travel
writing as a ...

Postmodern Medievalisms

Author: Richard J. Utz

Publisher: DS Brewer

ISBN: 9781843840121

Page: 239

View: 139

Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture

by Stephanie Trigg

... given to the Arthurian world within this romanticism , or on its specific valency
within colonial and postcolonial Australia . ... I want to suggest that the transition
between the two heroines ' medievalisms reflects the changing significance ?

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture

Author: Stephanie Trigg

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 302

View: 775

" This collection opens up a new field of academic and general interest- Australian medievalism. That is, the heritage and continuing influence of medieval and gothic themes, ideas and cultural practices. Geographically removed from Europe, and distinguished by its eighteenth-century colonial settlement, Australia is a fascinating testing-ground on which to explore the cultural residues of medieval and gothic tradition. These traditions take a distinctive form, once they have been 'transported' to a different topographical setting, and a cultural context whose relationship with Europe has always been dynamic and troubled. Early colonists attempted to make the unfamiliar landscape of Australia familiar by inscribing it with European traditions- since then, a diverse range of responses and attitudes to the medieval and gothic past have been played out in Australian culture, from traditional forms of historical reconstruction through to playful postmodernist pastiche. These essays examine the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant

The journal of medieval and early modern studies

by

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by Dante and Petrarch to seal off the Sixth Age ... Medievalisms Old and New :
The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies , ” American
Historical Review 103 ( 1998 ) : 677 – 704 . ... of modern theory of the nation and
of postcolonial 23 24 theory itself is Kathleen Davis , “ National Writing Dagenais
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Medieval Art and Architecture After the Middle Ages

by Janet Marquardt

... Postcolonial Gothic : The Medievalism of America ' s ' National Cathedrals , ”
forthcoming in Medievalisms and the ... with Reims is by examining the Reims -
related paraphernalia from World War I available for purchase today on ebay .

Medieval Art and Architecture After the Middle Ages

Author: Janet Marquardt

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub

ISBN:

Page: 389

View: 272

Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts of the Middle Ages have served to articulate contemporary aspirations and anxieties. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection examine the afterlife of medieval works through their preservation, restoration, appropriation, and commodification in America, Great Britain, and across Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From the evocation of metaphors and tropes, to monumental projects of restoration and recreationmedieval visual culture has had a tremendous purchase in the construction of political, religious, and cultural practices of the Modern era. The authors assembled here engage a diverse spectrum of works, from Irish ruins and a former Florentine prison to French churches and American department stores, and an equally diverse array of media ranging from architecture and manuscripts to embroidery, monumental sculpture, and metalwork. With applications not only to the study of art and architecture, but also encompassing such varied fields as commerce, city planning, education, literature, collecting and exhibition design, this copiously illustrated anthology comprises a significant contribution to the study of medieval art and medievalism.

How Soon Is Now

by Carolyn Dinshaw

In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.

How Soon Is Now

Author: Carolyn Dinshaw

Publisher: Duke University Press

ISBN: 0822353679

Page: 251

View: 773

In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.

Maistresse of My Wit

by Louise D'Arcens

... belief in the inferiority of colonial ' product ' , was typical of the time but seems
remote in today ' s post - colonial climate . ... perspective to suggest that I am far
from alone in pinpointing an anxiety about the spectre of New World amateurism .
... Medievalisms Old and New : The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American
Medieval Studies ' , American Historical Review , 103 ( 1998 ) , 677 - 704 ( p .

Maistresse of My Wit

Author: Louise D'Arcens

Publisher: Brepols Pub

ISBN:

Page: 384

View: 956

This volume explores the reciprocal relationships that can develop between medieval women writers and the modern scholars who study them. Medieval women writers discussed include those writing in the vernacular such as Christine de Pizan and Margaret Paston, those writing in Latin such as Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, and Birgitta of Sweden, and the works transcribed from women mystics such as Margery Kempe, Hadewijch, and Julian of Norwich. Attention is also given to medieval women as the readers, consumers and patrons of written works. Issues considered in this volume include the place of ethics, interestedness and social justice in contemporary medieval studies, questions of alterity, empathy, essentialism and appropriation in dealing with figures of the medieval past, the permeable boundaries between academic medieval studies and popular medievalism, questions of situatedness and academic voice, and the relationship between feminism and medieval studies. Linked to these issues is the interrelation between medieval women and medieval men in the production and consumption of written works both for and about women and the implications of this for both female and male readers of those works today.