Medievalism and the Quest for the Real Middle Ages

Clare A. Simmons

Introduction, Clare A. Simmons; Chapter 1 Samuel Daniel’s Defense of Medievalism, Kelly A. Quinn; Chapter 2 Chivalry and Romance in the Eighteenth Century: Richard Hurd and the Disenchantment of The Faerie Queene, Kristine Louise Haugen; Chapter 3 Waging Battle: Ashford v. Thornton, Ivanhoe, and Legal Violence, Mark Schoenfield; Chapter 4 Marianne: Mystic or Madwoman? Representations of Jeanne d’Arc on the Parisian Stage in the 1820s, Sarah Hibberd; Chapter 5 The “Truth” About the Middle Ages: La Revue des Deux Mondes and Late Nineteenth-Century French Medievalism, Elizabeth Emery; Chapter 6 Medieval Religion, Victorian Homosexualities, Frederick S. Roden; Chapter 7 Heraldry and Red Hats: Linguistic Skepticism and Chesterton’s Revision of Ruskinian Medievalism, Chene Heady; Chapter 8 The Return of the King: Medievalism and the Politics of Nostalgia in the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement, Susan Aronstein;