Studies in Medievalism XI: Appropriating the Middle Ages: Scholarship, Politics, Fraud

The 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 King of Bavaria, to the anglicization of the medieval Welsh...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085991626X
• ISBN13: 9780859916264
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"