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Harry Potter Medievalism

open access: yes, 2015
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series exists as part of a fully-fledged multi-media and material culture, one that participates extensively in medievalism.
Renée Ward (17169559)
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

Medievalism studies: как изучается «современное Средневековье»? [Medievalism Studies: How are the “Modern Middle Ages” Studied? ]

open access: yes, 2019
Rusanov A. Medievalism studies: как изучается «современное Средневековье»? [Medievalism Studies: How are the “Modern Middle Ages” Studied? ]. Vox medii aevi. 2019;2(5):12–42.The article is dedicated to the investigations of medievalism, i. e.
Rusanov, Aleksandr
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Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad

open access: yes, 2016
In this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook's "The Anniad," a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen.
Candace Barrington
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A History of ‘Religious History’

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

2016 and All That: Medievalism and Exceptionalism in Brexit Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Since the turn of the century, national exceptionalism narratives underpinned by medieval history have staged a comeback in numerous European countries. Such discursive use of the Middle Ages – so-called ‘medievalism’ – often operates at the interface of
Berger, Matthias
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Victorian Medievalism and Secular Design

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter traces how the arguments used to promote ecclesiastical gothic became diffused in the context of a wider discourse about taste. Pugin’s arguments for gothic had been designed to persuade a narrow group of ecclesiastical patrons but this ...
Jim Cheshire (17155435)
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J.R.R. Tolkien's New Legends of the North [PDF]

open access: yesLimina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2014
This paper will address two of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works that explore important concerns of medievalism: the tension between medieval and post-medieval material and the separation of scholarly and creative reinterpretations.
Alana Bennett
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