| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Past imperfect
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Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98). |
| Contents |
Getting political -- Extremes : the Middle Ages on the fringe -- Inheritance, roots, traditions : discovering medieval origins -- Anxious returns : the new feudalism and new medievalism -- Postscript. The eternal return of the medieval. |
| Summary |
Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity, especially by writers and politicians on the far right. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. Daniel Wollenberg examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle Ages in popular culture.
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Middle Ages in popular culture. |
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Medievalism -- Political aspects.
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Medievalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781942401407 |
| ISBN |
1942401418 electronic book |
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9781942401414 (electronic book) |
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9781942401407 |
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