Karl Fugelso 
Studies in Medievalism XIX [PDF ebook] 
Defining Neomedievalism(s)

An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.


The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on Medievalism, in ever more sessions at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, and by many recent or forthcoming publications has left little doubtof the importance of this new, provocative area of study. In response to a seminal essay defining medievalism in relationship to neomedievalism [published in volume 18 of this journal], this book begins with seven essays definingneomedievalism in relationship to medievalism. Their positions are then tested by five articles, whose subjects range from modern American manifestations of Byzantine art, to the Vietnam War as refracted through non-heterosexual implications in the 1976 movie
Robin and Marian, and versions of abjection in recent
Beowulf films. Theory and practice are thus juxtaposed in a volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest growing areas of academia.


Contributors: Amy S. Kaufman, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Lesley Coote, Cory Lowell Grewell, M.J. Toswell, E.L. Risden, Lauryn S. Mayer, Glenn Peers, Tison Pugh, David W. Marshall, Richard H. Osberg, Richard Utz

Table of Content

Editorial Note

Medieval Unmoored – Amy S. Kaufman

Neomedievalism, Hyperrealism, and Simulation – Brent Moberly and Kevin Moberly

A Short Essay about Neo-Medievalism – Lesley A Coote

Neomedievalism: An Eleventh Little Middle Ages? – Cory Lowell Grewell

The Simulacrum of Neomedievalism – M J Toswell

Sandworms, Bodices, and Undergrounds: The Transformative Mélange of Neomedievalism – E L Risden

Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism[s] – Lauryn S. Mayer

Utopia and Heterotopia: Byzantine Modernisms in America – Glenn Peers

Queer Crusading, Military Masculinity, and Allegories of Vietnam in Richard Lester’s
Robin and Marian – Tison Pugh

Getting Reel with Grendel’s Mother: The Abject Maternal and Social Critique – David W. Marshall

The Colony Writes Back: F. N. Robinson’s
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the
Translatio of Chaucer Studies to the United States – Richard Utz

False Memories: The Dream of Chaucer and Chaucer’s Dream in the Medieval Revival – Richard H Osberg

Notes on Contributors

About the author

M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario.