LEADER 03826nam 22006012 450 001 9910806802403321 005 20210204110304.0 010 $a1-64189-900-X 010 $a1-942401-03-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781942401032 035 $a(CKB)4340000000195734 035 $a(OCoLC)1012882140 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4987182 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6034231 035 $a(DE-B1597)546812 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781942401032 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781942401032 035 $a(OCoLC)993878595 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000195734 100 $a20201011d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedievalism $ea manifesto /$fRichard Utz$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aKalamazoo :$cARC Humanities Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 95 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPast imperfect 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021). 311 0 $a1-942401-02-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 89-95). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tForeword --$tChapter 1: What?s Love Got to Do with It? Our Middle Ages, Ourselves --$tChapter 2: Don?t Know Much about the Middle Ages? Towards Flat(ter) Futures of Engagement --$tChapter 3: Intervention One: Residual Medievalisms in Eastern Bavaria --$tChapter 4: Intervention Two: Race and Medievalism at Atlanta?s Rhodes Hall --$tChapter 5: Intervention Three: Medievalism, Religion, and Temporality --$tChapter 6: Manifesto: Six (Not So) Little Medievalisms --$tFurther Reading 330 $aThis book is called a manifesto because it has an unapologetically political objective. Richard Utz wants to help reform the way we think about and practise our academic engagement with medieval culture, and he uses his own observations as a medievalist and medievalism-ist over the last twenty-five years to offer ways in which we might reconnect with the general public that has allowed us to become, since the late nineteenth century, a rather exclusive clan of specialists who communicate mostly with each other. The traditional academic study of the Middle Ages, after more than a century of growing and plateauing, is now on the decline. While, at least over the next five to ten years, we will still be basking in the reassuring proximity (at conferences) of thousands of others who are involved in what we do ourselves, there is a manifest discrepancy between the large number of students who request that we address their love of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and medieval-themed video and computer games, and the decreasing number of actual medievalists hired to replace retiring colleagues. We should pursue more lasting partnerships with so-called amateurs and enthusiasts for the sake of a sustainable future engagement with medieval culture. Richard Utz suggests some ways we might do this, and looks forward to 'a more truly co-disciplinary, inclusive, democratic, and humanistic engagement with what we call, for better or worse, the Middle Ages'. 410 0$aPast imperfect (ARC Humanities Press) 606 $aMedievalism 606 $aMedievalism in literature 606 $aCivilization, Medieval 610 $aMedievalism. 610 $aPublic engagement. 610 $aSocial impact. 615 0$aMedievalism. 615 0$aMedievalism in literature. 615 0$aCivilization, Medieval. 676 $a909.07 700 $aUtz$b Richard J.$f1961-$01598305 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806802403321 996 $aMedievalism$93920476 997 $aUNINA