Early Modern Medievalisms

Review "The editors of Early Modern Medievalisms deserve high praise for assembling excellent individual contributions representative of a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. Moreover, they should be congratulated on producing a meticulously edited volume." - Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology, in: Spenser Review 43.2.38 (Fall 2013) Product Description Although modernity historically defined itself by relation to the medieval, the ways in which early moderns invoked and conceptualized the medieval are still insufficiently understood. This volume's seventeen essays present some preliminary explorations into the field of early modern medievalisms. From the Back Cover Modernity has historically defined itself by relation to classical antiquity on the one hand, and the medieval on the other. While early modernity s relation to Antiquity has been amply documented, its relation to the medieval has been less studied. This volume seeks to address this omission by presenting some preliminary explorations of this field. In seventeen essays ranging from the Italian Renaissance to Enlightenment France, it focuses on three main themes: continuities and discontinuities between the medieval and early modern, early modern re-uses of medieval matter, and conceptualizations of the medieval. Collectively, the essays illustrate how early modern medievalisms differ in important respects from post-Romantic views of the medieval, ultimately calling for a re-definition of the concept of medievalism itself. About the Author Alicia C. Montoya, Ph.D. (2005), University of Leiden, is Rosalind Franklin Fellow in Romance Languages at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She has published on French medievalism, book history and women authors, including Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Champion, 2007).Sophie van Romburgh, Ph.D. (2002), University of Leiden, is a lecturer in English philology at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). She studies early modern scholarship on medieval Germanic literature, and has published the correspondence of Francis Junius (Brill, 2004).Wim van Anrooij, Ph.D. (1990) in philology, University of Leiden, is Professor of Dutch Literature until Romanticism at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published on heralds and heraldic poetry, the Nine Worthies and medieval miscellanies.