Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent /

This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.

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Main Authors: Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine) (Author), Trigg, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019
Series:Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice
  • The space of time and the medievalist imaginary
  • Wonderful things
  • Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages
  • Loving the past
  • Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction.