Studies In Medievalism Xxvi Ecomedievalism [Hardcover]

Ecoconcerns and ecocriticism are a rising trend in medievalism studies, and form a major focus of this collection. Topics under discussion in the first part of the volume include figurations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism; environmental medievalism in Sidney Lanier's Southern chivalry; nostalgia and loss in T.H. White's forest sauvage ; and green medievalism in J.R.R. Tolkien's elven realms.The eleven subsequent articles continue to take in such themes more tangentially, testing and buillding on the methods and conclusions of the first part. Their subjects include John Aubrey's Middle Ages; medieval charter-horns in early modern England; nineteenth-century reimaginings of Chaucer's Griselda; Dante's influence on Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream ; multi-layered medievalisms in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; (coopted) feminism via medievalism in Disney's Maleficent; (neo)medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade; cosmopolitan anxieties and national identity in Netflix's Marco Polo; mapping Everealm in The Quest; undergraduate perceptions of the medieval and the Middle Ages ; and medievalism in the prosopopeia and corpsepaint of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.Contributors: Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Daniel Helbert, Ann F. Howey, Carol Jamison, Ann M. Martinez, Kara L. McShane, Lisa Myers, Elan Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant, Dean Swinford, Ren?e Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental matters.Editorial Note - A Sense of Life in Things Inert : The Animistic Figurations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Medievalist Texts - Scott RileyFuture Nostalgias: Environmental Medievalism and Lanier's Southern Chivalry - Daniel Glynn HelbertT. H. White's Forest Sauvage : Nostalgia and Loslc,