{"product_id":"affective-medievalism-love-abjection-and-discontent-9781526147998","title":"Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect readers in the present with the lost history of what may be called the ‘medievalism of the medievals’. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it \u003ci\u003ealread\u003c\/i\u003ey offers us a model of how to relate to the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In their project to legitimize affect in medieval studies, Prendergast and Trigg examine the dialectic between the medieval past and subsequent representations of that past. Their considerations weave a densely learned tapestry.'\u003cbr\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In this deceptively concise book, Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg offer thoughtful commentary on complex issues involving academic and extra-academic engagement with the medieval past.'\u003cbr\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Medieval and medievalist practice\u003cbr\u003e1 The space of time and the medievalist imaginary\u003cbr\u003e2 Wonderful things\u003cbr\u003e3 Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e4 Loving the past\u003cbr\u003e5 Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041012547927,"sku":"9781526147998","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526147998.jpg?v=1750948588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affective-medievalism-love-abjection-and-discontent-9781526147998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}