The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination
Memory, Film and Medievalism
Series: New Directions in Medieval Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 February 2018
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781788311397
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 0
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Long description:
It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate, visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms constantly being developed, synthesised and remade.
But what does the public really know? How do the conflicting medievalisms they consume contribute to their knowledge? And why is this important?
In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider public's understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions. Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways - both formal and informal - that people learn about the medieval past and the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past, and why understanding this is so important. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination will be of interest to anyone working on medieval studies, medievalism, memory studies, medieval film studies, informal learning or public history.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Public Understanding of the Past
Chapter 2: The Medieval Film
Chapter 3: Learning History from Film
Chapter 4: Their Medieval-Middle Ages
Chapter 5: The Middle Ages They Viewed
Chapter 6: The Medieval Worlds They Found
Chapter 7: Conclusions
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