| Description |
1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover -- Introduction: Directions of Thought -- The Middle Ages at the Midcentury -- Education at the Turn of the Century -- A Period of Crisis -- Stages of Decolonization -- The Medieval Cold War -- Part I Politics -- Chapter 1 Outside History: Fanon's Negative Manicheism -- Chapter 2 "The Noblest Blood God Ever Made": W. E. B. Du Bois's Medievalism in the Contexts of the World Wars |
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The Princess Steel and Black Medievalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Dark Princess and the Interwar Period -- "Color and Democracy" after the Wars -- Chapter 3 Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California Regents -- The King's Two Bodies -- Medieval Theology -- The Oath Controversy -- Political Theology -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Hannah Arendt's Middle Ages for the Left -- Augustine's Politics in the Origins of Totalitarianism -- Duns Scotus's Ontology of the Will in the Life of the Mind -- A Middle Ages for the Left -- Part II Arts |
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Chapter 5 Curtius and Jung: Commonplaces, Archetypes, and Literature's Collective Unconscious -- Chapter 6 Old English at the Midcentury: Poetry, Scholarship, and Fiction in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s -- Amis's "Beowulf" and the "Language Men" -- Bryher's Beowulf -- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes? -- "Anglo-Saxon" and Empire: One Conclusion and Another Beginning -- Chapter 7 Erwin Panofsky's Neo-Kantian Humanism and the Purported Relation between Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism -- Panofsky's Neo-Kantian Humanism -- Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism |
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Chapter 8 "Are Women Human?": Authority, Gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. Sayers's Scholarship -- Are Women Human? -- "The 'Terrible' Ode" -- Performing Gender: Masculinity, Femininity, Androgyny -- "Exchange of Hierarchies": Authority, Tradition, and Gender -- Conclusion -- Part III Epochs -- Chapter 9 Periodization Trouble: Auerbach, Huizinga, and the Question of Medieval Realism -- Periodization Trouble? -- Which Realism? -- Close Encounters -- "Medieval" Realism in Huizinga and Auerbach -- Chapter 10 Medieval Mysticism and the Making of Simone Weil |
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Chapter 11 Hermeneutics and the Medieval Horizon: Zumthor, Jauss, Barthes, and Gadamer -- Zumthor, Jauss, Gadamer: Some Contours -- Pleasure -- Dialogue -- Horizons -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perry, R. D
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| ISBN |
9781108803366 |
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1108803369 |
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