Visions and ruins : cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages / / Joshua Davies

• Autore: Davies Joshua (Lecturer in Medieval Literature)
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetto topico: Collective memory in art; Medieval Literature; Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval
• Soggetto geografico: Grossbritannien; Great Britain; Great Britain Civilization 1066-1485
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: Cultural memory; Material culture; Medieval culture; Medieval studies; Medievalism; Memory studies; Middle English literature; Monument studies; Old English literature; Visual culture
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Ruins and wonders: the politics of cultural memory in and of early medieval England -- 2. Queen Eleanor and her crosses: trauma and memory, medieval and modern -- 3. Medievalist double consciousness and the production of difference: medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy -- 4. The language of gesture: untimely bodies and contemporary performance -- Afterword: migrations -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Visions and ruins
• ISBN: 1-5261-3622-8; 1-5261-2594-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796814103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Manchester medieval literature and culture.