Books in the Medievalism series

The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out.

First full-length study of the impact of the Gothic Revival across the arts, from literature and architectural theory to houses, furniture and interiors.

Game of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question.

Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet.

The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.

First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon.

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.

An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.

Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.

An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages.

A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese.Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less well-known but equally rich Petrarchism: the nineteenth century. It considers both translations and rewritings: the former comprise not only Petrarch's celebrated Italian poetry but also his often neglected Latin works; the latter explore Petrarch's influence on and presence in French novels aswell as poetry of the period, both in and out of the canon. Nineteenth-century French Petrarchism has its roots in the later part of the previous century, with formative contributions from Voltaire, Rousseau, and, in particular, the abbe de Sade. To these literary catalysts must be added the unification of Avignon with France at the Revolution, as well as anniversary commemorations of Petrarch's birth and death celebrated in Avignon and Fontaine-de-Vaucluse across the period (1804-1874-1904). Situated at the crossroads of reception history, medievalism, and translation studies, this investigation uncovers tensions between the competing construction of a national, French Petrarch and a local, Avignonese or Provencal poet. Taking Petrarch as its litmus test, this book also asks probing questions about the bases of nationality, identity, and belonging. Jennifer Rushworth is a Junior Research Fellowat St John's College, Oxford.

An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long poems "e;The Lovers of Gudrun"e; and Sigurd the Volsung. Between 1868 and 1876, Morris not only translated several major sagas into English for the first time with his collaborator the Icelander Eirikur Magnusson (1833-1913) but he also travelled on horseback twice across the Icelandic interior, journeys which led him through the best known of the saga sites. By looking closely at his translations of the sagas and the texts on which he based them, the journals of his travels in Iceland, and his saga-inspired long poems and lyric poetry, this book shows how Morris conceived a unique ideal of heroism through engaging with Icelandic literature. It shows the sagas and poetry of Iceland as crucial in shaping his view of the best life a man could live and spurring him on in the subsequent passions on which much of his legacy rests. IAN FELCE gained his PhD from Cambridge University.