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The United States of Medievalism Tison Pugh

The United States of Medievalism By Tison Pugh

The United States of Medievalism by Tison Pugh


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This fascinating collection explores America's appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation's complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.

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The United States of Medievalism by Tison Pugh

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, New Orleans's Mardi Gras, and the Las Vegas Strip. As the editors 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 medievalism 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.

About Tison Pugh

Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Susan Aronstein is a professor of English and Honors at the University of Wyoming.

Table of Contents

Introduction Built in the United States of America: Constructing a Medieval Past Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein Part I: Building the American Middle Ages 1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge Kathleen Coyne Kelly 2. Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn - and Philadelphia's Other Medieval(ist) Jewels Kevin J. Harty 3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, D.C. Laurie Finke 4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siecle Alfred Thomas Part II: Living in the American Middle Ages 5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta Richard Utz 6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross Candace Barrington 7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones Jana K. Schulman 8. I yearned for a strange land and a people that had the charm of originality: Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia Alison Gulley 9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism Lowell Gallagher Part III: Playing in the American Middle Ages 10. Orlando's Medieval Heritage Project Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein 11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans's Medievalisms Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington 12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May-Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century Pleasure Faires in Contemporary Texas Lorraine Kochanske Stock 13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman Notes on Contributors

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CIN1487525087VG
9781487525088
1487525087
The United States of Medievalism by Tison Pugh
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
2021-08-20
336
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