Visions and Ruins by Joshua Davies
Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval past and the contemporary moment.-
The Parlement of Foulys
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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Medieval literary voices
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Hybrid healing
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Difficult pasts
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Play time
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Transfiguring medievalism
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Medieval afterlives
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
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Between liturgy and magic
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Walking in the Middle Ages
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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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From Iceland to the Americas
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The politics of Middle English parables
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Translating hell
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Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
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Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
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Objects of Affection
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Harley Manuscript Geographies
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The The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
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The Scottish Legendary
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Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Roadworks
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A Knight's Legacy
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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
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Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
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A Landscape of Words
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Reading Robin Hood
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Greenery
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
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Aspects of Knowledge
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Practising Shame
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The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
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Fantastic histories
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Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
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Objects of belief
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Saga Emotions
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Strange matter
'a timely contribution to current debates about the relevance of the Middle Ages to contemporary political discourse. It is a thoughtful and meditative rumination on the various ways that the idea of medievalism functions within modernity, ranging from the dark underbelly of right-wing nationalism, which co-opts the medieval as a singular site of originary ethnicity, to the hopeful, almost utopian work of contemporary artists, who deploy an atemporal medievalism to bridge the difference between multiple pasts, presents, and futures.' Speculum 'this is an engaging book written by a scholar who is immersed in the languages of his texts, the history of his monuments, the scholarship on them, and has managed to produce a book that offers something new to Medieval Studies while also being accessible to a range of audiences, if they are up to the task.' The Medieval Review -- .
Joshua Davies is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King’s College London
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526125934 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526125935 |
| Title | Visions and Ruins |
| Author | Joshua Davies |
| Series | Manchester Medieval Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2018-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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