Research Catalog

Title

The United States of medievalism / edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pugh, Tison
• Aronstein, Susan Lynn

Description

x, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation's communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American. The volume's chapters visit the nation's many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California's San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City's churches, Boston's gardens, Philadelphia's Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando's Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota's Viking Villages, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the Las Vegas Strip. As Pugh, Aronstein, and their fellow essayists take the reader on this cross-country trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation's medievalized spaces. In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of the Middle Ages on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages."--

Subject

• 476-1492
• Medievalism > United States
• Popular culture > United States
• Civilization > Medieval influences
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Medievalism
• Popular culture
• United States > Civilization > Medieval influences
• Europe > History > Influence. > 476-1492
• Europe
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Philadelphia's Medieval(ist) Jewels: Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Glencairn, and More / Kevin J. Harty -- The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, DC / Laurie Finke -- Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siècle / Alfred Thomas -- Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta / Richard Utz -- Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross / Candace Barrington -- Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones / Jana K. Schulman -- "I Yearned for a Strange Land and a People That Had the Charm of Originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia / Alison Gulley -- Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism / Lowell Gallagher -- Orlando's Medieval Heritage Project / Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein -- Saints and Sinners: New Orleans's Medievalisms / Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington -- Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary Texas / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City / Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman.

Call Number

JFE 21-8217

ISBN

• 1487525087
• 9781487525088
• 1487507380
• 9781487507381

OCLC

1223012026

Title

The United States of medievalism / edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

476-1492

Added Author

Pugh, Tison, editor.

Aronstein, Susan Lynn, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: United States of medievalism. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487536143 9781487536145 (OCoLC)1247472494

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8217