| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; 1 Progress, Decline and Fall: Historiography and the Middle Ages in the Age of Reason; 2 A New Order of Things: Kant, Pre-Romanticism and the Emergence of the Modern Medievalism; 3 Golden Ages and Perfect Presents: Romanticism, Idealism and the Middle Ages; 4 Professors and Professionals: Medieval History and the Nineteenth-Century Academic Environment; 5 As it Really Was: Academic Medieval History into the Twentieth Century; 6 The Waning of Progress: Radical Historiography into the Twentieth Century. |
| Summary |
Medievalism has become a central concern for those studying and teaching medieval history. It can be distinguished from traditional medieval history because it is not directly concerned with the study of the Middle Ages themselves, but rather it looks at how ideas about the medieval era operate in modern culture. This volume breaks new ground by moving beyond the arena of contemporary popular culture by interpreting modern academic attitudes towards the Middle Ages as themselves forms of medievalism. What is presented as refined historical truth is no more than a construction of truth derived. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology, Medieval.
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Archaeology, Medieval. |
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval. |
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History, Modern.
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History, Modern. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Historical Present. Continuum Intl Pub Group 2011 9781441110572 (OCoLC)648934443 |
| ISBN |
9781441107602 (electronic book) |
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1441107606 (electronic book) |
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9781441110572 |
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1441110577 |
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