Karl Fugelso 
Studies in Medievalism XXVI [PDF ebook] 
Ecomedievalism

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental matters.


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-centuryreimaginings 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 ofthe '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. Mc Shane, Lisa Myers, Elan Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant, Dean Swinford, Renée Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.

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Editorial Note –

’A Sense of Life in Things Inert’: The Animistic Figurations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Medievalist Texts – Scott Riley

Future Nostalgias: Environmental Medievalism and Lanier’s Southern Chivalry – Daniel Glynn Helbert

T. H. White’s 'Forest Sauvage’: Nostalgia and Loss – Lisa Myers

Elvencentrism: The Green Medievalism of Tolkien’s Elven Realms – Ann M. Martinez

Fragmentary Dreams: John Aubrey’s Medieval Heritage Construction – Katie Peebles

Charter Horns and the Antiquarian Imagination in Early Modern England – Dustin Frazier Wood

Giving Voice to Griselda: Radical Reimaginings of a Medieval Tale – Renée Ward

Medieval and Futuristic Hells: The Influence of Dante on Ellison’s 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream’ – Jeremy Withers

Reading Westeros: George R. R. Martin’s Multi-Layered Medievalisms – Carol Jamison

Modernity in the Middle: The Medieval Fantasy of (Coopted) Feminism in Disney’s
Maleficent – Elan Justice (E J) Pavlinich

Future Medieval: (Neo)Medievalism in
Babylon 5 and
Crusade – Ann F. Howey

Cosmopolitan Anxieties and National Identity in the Netflix
Marco Polo – Kara L. Mc Shane

Mapping Everealm: Space, Time, and Medieval Fictions in
The Quest – Angela Jane Weisl

Medievalisms of the Mind: Undergraduate Perceptions of the 'Medieval’ and the 'Middle Ages’ – Paul Sturtevant

Mask of the Medieval Corpse: Prosopopeia and Corpsepaint in Mayhem’s
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas – Dean Swinford

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SCOTT CORBET RILEY holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and currently teaches Latin at Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington.