Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Leslie J. Workman.

Utz, Richard and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honor of Leslie J. Workman.

(Making the Middle Ages, 1.) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998. xiv + 452 pp. EUR 63. ISBN: 2-503-50166-4.

While the "homage" volume genre often suffers from its "heterogeneous character and quality," Utz and Shippey have gathered "experienced practitioners of medievalism" who focus on "the reception of medieval culture in the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary periods" in. order to present "a broad and representative picture of current research in medievalism." An introductory essay by the editors discusses the development of medievalism as a field of investigation and independent scholar Leslie Workman's important contributions to the field. Essays include: Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, "Medievalism in the Modern World: Introductory Perspectives"; Theresa Ann Sears, "The Anxiety of Authority and Medievalizing the New World"; Richard Osberg, "Humanist Allusions and Medieval Themes: The 'Receyving' of Queen Anne, London, 1533"; John Simons, "Christopher Middleton and Elizabethan Medievalism"; Bernard Rosenthal, "Medievalism and the Salem Witch Trials"; Clare Simmons, "Absent Presence: The Romantic-Era Magna Cha rta and the English Constitution"; R. J. Smith, "The Swanscombe Legend and the Historiography of Kentish Gavelkind"; David Barclay, "Representing the Middle Ages: Court Festivals in Nineteenth-Century Prussia"; Ulrich Muller, "'Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles'? Walther von der Vogelweide, Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the 'Song of the Germans'"; Roger Simpson, "St. George and the Pendragon"; Tom Shippey, "'The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrog': A Study in Sensibilities"; Alice Chandler, "Carlyle and the Medievalism of the North"; Werner Wunderlich, "Medieval Images: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel's Ekkehard and St. Gall"; Felicia Bonaparte, "The (Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the (Re)Formation of Art: The Medieval Paradigm that Frames The Picture of Dorian Gray"; William Calin, "Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Phillip's Paolo and Francesca"; Kathleen Verduin, "Medievalism, Classicism, and the Fiction of E.M. Forster"; William D. Paden, "Reconstructing the Middle Ages: The Monk's Sermon in The Seventh Seal"; Rosemary Welsh, "Theorizing Medievalism: The Case of Gone with the Wind"; Gwendolyn Morgan, "Gnosticism, the Middle Ages, and the Search for Responsibility: Immortals in Popular Fiction"; Paul E. Szarmach, "Anthem: Auden's 'Caedmon's Hymn'"; Nils Holger Petersen, "'In Rama Sonat Gemitus. . .': The Becket Story in a Danish Medievalist Music Drama, A Vigil for Thomas Becket"; Richard Utz, "'Cleansing' the Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius and his Medievalist Turn"; Britton J. Harwood, "The Ideological Use of Chaucer: The Examples of Kittredge and Donaldson"; David Metzger, "Mediev alism and the Problem of Radical Evil in Snodgrass's The Fuehrer Bunker."