World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture

by Louise D'Arcens

World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies--from the Middle East, France, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Australia--it shows that to understand medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to develop...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198825943
• ISBN13: 9780198825944
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.9"