Ethics and Medievalism

by Fugelso, Karl

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Title Statements

Full title :Ethics and Medievalism / edited by Karl Fugelso.

Summary

"Ethics in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume. The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities, and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism. The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda, disjuncturesfrom medieval literature to medievalist film in portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the world around us."--Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):D.S. Brewer
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 246 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781843843764, 1843843765
oclc:ocn880631133
LC Classification:BJ231
Dewey Decimal:001.09

Part 1. Ethics and Medievalism: Some perspective(s) -- The dangers of the search for authenticity? The ethics of Hallowe'en / M.J. Toswell -- Living memory and the long dead: The ethics of laughing at the Middle Ages / Louise D'arcens -- Justice human and divine: Ethics in Margaret Frazer's Medievalist Dame frevisse series / Lisa Hicks and Lesley E. Jacobs -- The song remains the same: Crossing intersections to create an ethical world via an adaptation of Everyman for everyone / Carol L. Robinson, Daniel-Raymond Nadon, and Nancy M. Resh -- Bringing elsewhere home: A song of Ice and Fires' Ethics of disability / Pascal J. Massie and Lauryn S. Mayer -- The ethical movement of Daenerys Targaryen / Christopher Roman -- Part 2. Interpretations -- What if the Giants returned to Albion for vengeance? Crusade and the mythic other in the Knights of the Nine expansion to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion / Jason Pitruzzello -- The Dark Ages of the Mind: Eugenics, Amnesia, and Historiograhy in Dan Brown's Inferno / Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly -- Plastic Pagans: Viking human sacrifice in film and television / Harry Brown -- Meat Puzzles: Beowulf and Horror Film / Nickolas Haydock -- Words, S…