Medieval studies

Rethinking the New Medievalism

by Küpper, Joachim, Bloch, R. Howard, Calhoun, Alison, Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline, Patterson, Jeanette

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"In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term 'new medievalism' to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approa…

This thesis investigates the description of sensation in the scenes immediately before, during, and following the death of Tristan in variations in the Tristan cycle from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Using a sensory studies approach, the project considers these scenes as…

Despite a notable lack of historiographic attention to medieval Iberian theatre, a golden age of performance existed on the Peninsula well before the appearance of Lope de Vega at the end of the sixteenth century. New archival discoveries and innovative research methodologies re…