The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination write by Paul B. Sturtevant. This book was released on 2018. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination
The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination write by Paul B. Sturtevant. This book was released on 2018-02-28. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate, visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms constantly being developed, synthesised and remade. But what does the public really know? How do the conflicting medievalisms they consume contribute to their knowledge? And why is this important? In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider public's understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions. Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways - both formal and informal - that people learn about the medieval past and the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past, and why understanding this is so important. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination will be of interest to anyone working on medieval studies, medievalism, memory studies, medieval film studies, informal learning or public history.
The Medieval Imagination
The Medieval Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Imagination write by Jacques Le Goff. This book was released on 1992-12-15. The Medieval Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests. "Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books "The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books "The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre - Student Edition
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre - Student Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre - Student Edition write by Helen Young. This book was released on 2015-07-30. The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre - Student Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Note: this is an abridged version of the book with references removed. The complete edition is available on this website. This fascinating study places multiple genres in dialogue and considers both medievalism and genre to be frameworks from which meaning can be produced. It explores works from a wide range of genres-children's and young adult, historical, cyberpunk, fantasy, science fiction, romance, and crime-and across multiple media-fiction, film, television, video games, and music. The range of media types and genres enable comparison, and the identification of overarching trends, while also allowing comparison of contrasting phenomena. As the first volume to explore the nexus of medievalism and genre across such a wide range of texts, this collection illustrates the fractured ideologies of contemporary popular culture. The Middle Ages are more usually, and often more prominently, aligned with conservative ideologies, for example around gender roles, but the Middle Ages can also be the site of resistance and progressive politics. Exploring the interplay of past and present, and the ways writers and readers work engage with them demonstrates the conscious processes of identity construction at work throughout Western popular culture. The collection also demonstrates that while scholars may have by-and-large abandoned the concept of accuracy when considering contemporary medievalisms, the Middle Ages are widely associated with authenticity, and the authenticity of identity, in the popular imagination; the idea of the real Middle Ages matters, even when historical realities do not. This book will be of interest to scholars of medievalism, popular culture, and genre.
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
