Dear Colleagues,

I would like to inform all colleagues working on the history and reception of
Medieval
Culture and Literature about a recently-published volume, Medievalism in the
Modern
World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman, eds.  Richard Utz and Tom Shippey
(Making the Middle Ages, 1) (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), 452pp. This
interdisciplinary
collection of essays from leading scholars in Europe, North America, and
Australia
xamines the pheonomenon of medievalism from the perspective of history,
politics,
scholarship, art, and literature. At the same time, the volume honors the
life-time
achievement of Leslie J. Workman, who established MEDIEVALISM as a scholarly
field and founded the journal negotiating the critical and creative
reinventions of medieval
culture and literature in postmedieval times, Studies in Medievalism.

Contents:

       Tabula Gratulatoria (in honour of Leslie J. Workman)
       Richard Utz and Tom Shippey: "Medievalism in the Modern World:
Introductory
		Perspectives."
       Theresa Ann Sears: "The Anxiety of Authority and Medievalizing the New
World."
       Richard Osberg: "Humanist Allusions and Medieval Themes: The
'Receyving' of
		Queen Anne, London, 1533."
       John Simons: "Christopher Middleton and Elizabethan Medievalism."
       Bernard Rosenthal: "Medievalism and the Salem Witch Trials."
       Clare Simmons: "Absent Presence: The Romantic-Era Magna Charta and the
			English Constitution."
       R.J. Smith: "The Swanscombe Legend and the Historiography of Kentish
		Gavelkind."
       David Barclay: "Representing the Middle Ages: Court Festivals in
		Nineteenth-Century Prussia."
       Ulrich Müller: "'Deutschland, Deutschland, Über Alles'? Walther von der
		Vogelweide, Hoffmann von Fallersleben and the 'Song of the
       	Germans': Medievalism, Nationalism and/or Racism."
       Roger Simpson: "St. George and the Pendragon."
       Tom Shippey: "The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrók': A Study in
Sensibilities."
       Alice Chandler: "Carlyle and the Medievalism of the North."
       Werner Wunderlich: "Medieval Images: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel's
Ekkehard 			and St. Gall."
       Felicia Bonaparte: "The (Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the
(Re)Formation
		of Art: The Medieval Paradigm that Frames The Picture of Dorian Gray."
       William Calin: "Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Philips's Paolo
and
		Francesca."
       Kathleen Verduin: "Medievalism, Classicism, and the Fiction of E.M.
Forster."
       William D. Paden: "Reconstructing the Middle Ages: The Monk's Sermon in
The
		Seventh Seal."
       Rosemary Welsh, "Theorizing Medievalism: The Case of Gone With the
Wind."
       Gwendolyn Morgan, "Gnosticism, the Middle Ages, and the Search for
		Responsibility: Immortals in Popular Fiction."
       Paul E. Szarmach: "'Anthem': Auden's 'Caedmon's Hymn'."
       Nils Holger Petersen: "'In Rama Sonat Gemitus...': The Becket Story in
Danish
		Medivalist Music Drama, A Vigil for Thomas Becket."
       Richard Utz: "'Cleansing' the Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius and his
		Medievalist Turn."
       Britton J. Harwood: "The Ideological Use of Chaucer: The Examples of
Kittredge
		and Donaldson."
       David Metzger: "Medievalism and the Problem of Radical Evil in
Snodgrass's The
		Fuehrer Bunker."
       David Greetham: "Romancing the Text, Medievalizing the Book."
       William Calin: "Leslie J. Workman."
       Richard Utz: "Speaking of Medievalism: An Interview with Leslie J.
Workman."

For more information about the series, Making the Middle Ages, please consult
the
University of Sydney's webpage:
http://centrum.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/medieval/Publicat.html








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