New Zealand Medievalism

Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published on Middle English literature and medievalisms, co-editing (with M.J.Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (2020), and (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories (2022). She is also the co-editor (with Laurel Ryan) of Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture (forthcoming). Janet M. Wilson is Professor Emerita in English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She formerly taught medieval studies at universities in New Zealand and the UK. Her research now focuses on the postcolonial and diaspora writing of the white settler societies of Australia and New Zealand, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. Katherine Mansfield is a special subject of interest. She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the series Studies in World Literature.

Introduction: New Zealand medievalism: reframing the medieval Part 1: Medieval studies: a foundation for medievalism 1. New Zealand medieval studies: an academy across the globe 2. Trans-Tasman medievalism: George Russell, Grahame Johnston, and Bernard Martin 3. There and back again: P.S. Ardern and J.A.W. Bennett as New Zealand medieval scholars 4. Place and space in te ao Māori and the medieval world Part 2: Medievalism in manuscript collections 5. Between worlds: the afterlife of medieval manuscripts in the Alfred and Isabel Reed collection 6. Integrating experiential learning to reinvigorate medieval studies in New Zealand Part 3: Medievalism in literature, music, film, and architecture 7. Music, medievalism, and the New Zealand early music revival 8. Tolkien’s primitivism and the myth of a pastoral paradise in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien adaptations 9. Set in concrete: the stained glass of St Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, and the Anglo-Catholic menace Part 4: Political medievalism 10. Havelock North: embodied medievalism in an Aotearoa New Zealand Village 11. Aotearoa New Zealand and global right-wing medievalism