International Medievalisms

MARY BOYLE is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. MARY BOYLE is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Florian Gassner received his PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of British Columbia; followed by lectureship at Mount Allison University, postdoctoral fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest, and DAAD-Lektorat at the Donetsk National University. He is Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford. Matthias D. Berger holds a PhD in English from the University of Bern and is currently training to be a teacher.

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Introduction, Mary Boyle

I. Internationally Nationalist
1. Making up the Middle Ages: Roman Scotland and Medievalism in the Eighteenth Century, Kristina Hildebrand
2. Emma Letherbrow's Gudrun: Kudrun for 'Modern' Victorians, Mary Boyle
3. Nationalism and Colonialism: The Early German Reception of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Florian Gassner
4. Inhabiting an Unpredictable Past - the Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Historicism, Michael Makin

II. Someone Else's Past?
5. The Medievalism of Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly, Sabina Rahman
6. 'The Northland of Old': The Use and 'Misuse' of (Medieval) Iceland, Hannah Armstrong
7. 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go': A Discourse of the Troubadour in British and Irish Literature, Kayleigh Ferguson
8. 'The old magic of the mind': the Influence of Wales and Medieval Welsh Literature in John Cowper Powys's, Maiden Castle, Felix Taylor

III. Activist Medievalism
9. 'Green Growing Pains': the 'Green Children of Woolpit' and Child Refugees, Carolyne Larrington
10. Medievalisms of Welcome: Medieval Englishness and the Nation's Migrant Other in Refugee Tales, Matthias D. Berger
11. Nordic Giants: Using Left-Wing Post-Rock to Deepen Our Understandings of White Supremacist Interpretations of Vikings, Eirnin Jefford Franks
12. 'The Great Original Suffragist': Joan of Arc as a Symbol in the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement, Suzanne LaVere

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