Studies in Medievalism
Studies in Medievalism is an annual publication that, as noted on its title page, "provides an interdisciplinary medium of exchange for scholars in all fields, including the visual and other arts, concerned with any aspect of the post-medieval idea and study of the Middle Ages and its influence, both scholarly and popular, of this study on Western society after 1500."[1] The series was founded in 1979 by Leslie J. Workman and Kathleen Verduin as an independent publication.[2] It is now published by Boydell & Brewer, Ltd., and has been edited since 2006 by Karl Fugelso. Since 2009, each volume has begun with a series of 3,000-word, commissioned essays on such topics as "Defining Medievalism(s)," "Defining Neomedievalism(s)," and "Medievalism and the Corporation." But the series is otherwise open to any paper that addresses medievalism in at least 6,000 words, and recent topics have ranged from representations of King Alfred in Charles Dickens's A Child's History of England[3] to medievalist music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films.[4]
Studies in Medievalism does not publish reviews. All reviews of works, performances, etc., reimagining the Middle Ages in postmedieval times are published in the journal's online review "arm," Medievally Speaking.
References
- ^ Karl Fugelso, ed., Studies in Medievalism: Defining Neomedievalism(s), XIX, 2010
- ^ http://www.medievalism.net/sim.html, accessed 18 March 2011
- ^ Emily Walker Heady, "A Steam-Whistle Modernist?: Representations of King Alfred in Dickens's A Child's History of England and The Battle of Life," Studies in Medievalism: Defining Medievalism(s), XVII, ed. Karl Fugelso, 2009
- ^ Stephen Meyer, "Soundscapes of Middle Earth: The Question of Medievalist Music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Films," Studies in Medievalism: Defining Medievalism(s) II, XVIII, ed. Karl Fugelso, 2010
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