Medievalism
Medievalism is the system of belief and practice characteristic of the Middle Ages, or devotion to elements of that period, which has been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture. Since the eighteenth century, a variety of movements have used the medieval period as a model or inspiration for creative activity, including Romanticism, the Gothic revival, the Pre-Raphaelite and arts and crafts movements and neo-medievalism (a term often used interchangeably with medievalism). The words "medievalism" and "Med
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This quote by medievalist Kolve is my concession:
We have little choice but to acknowledge our modernity, admit that our interest in the past is always (and by no means illegitimately) born of present concerns.
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― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
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And why not—whatever despair we may feel concerning resurrection and reassemblage—find comic relief in the human determination to assert wholeness in the face of inevitable decay and fragmentation?
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― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
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