Studies in Medievalism IX (1997): Medievalism and the Academy, I(Studies in Medievalism)

The first of a two-volume examination of medievalism and academic scholarship, this collection is divided into four sections: Canonizing Chaucer, Antiquarian loomings, Medievalism, medieval studies, and Medieval studies at the millennium. Medievalism, the "continuing process of creating the middle ages", engenders formal medieval studies from a wide variety of popular interests in the middle ages. This volume accordingly explores the common ground between artisticand popular constructions of the middle ages and the study of the middle ages within the academy. Essays treat the genesis of medieval studies in early modern antiquarianism; the erection of academic medievalism through persistent, indeed perverse, appeals to heroic medieval manliness and attenuated female spirituality; the current jeopardy of the book (a medieval invention) in the face of technological assault; the politics of the nineteenth-century academy (F.W. Furnival and others); the editorial practice of Sidney Lanier; and the cultural canonization of Chaucer. Contributors: DAVID O. MATTHEWS, STEVE ELLIS, ANTONIA WARD, GRAHAM PARRY, MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS, ANNA SMOL, DAVID ALLAN, MATILDE MATEO, MARYA DEVOTO, ULRIKE WIETHAUS, STEPHEN STEELE, JAMES KENNEDY, WILLIAM CALIN, JESSE D. HURLBUT, JOAN GRENIER-WINTHER, WILLIAM PADEN

Table of Contents:
Editorial - Kathleen Verduin Speaking to Chaucer: The Poet and the Nineteenth-Century Academy - David O. Matthews Popular Chaucer and the Academy - Steve Ellis "My love for Chaucer": F. J. Furnivall and the Homosociality in the Chaucer Society - Antonia Ward An Incipient Medievalist in the Seventeenth Century: William Somner of Canterbury - Graham Parry Revaluing the Work of Edward Lye, an Eighteenth-Century Septentrional Scholar - Margaret Clunies Ross Pleasure, Progress, and the Profession: Elizabeth Elstob and Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Studies - Anna Smol Sceptical Medievalism: The Problem of Arthurian Historicity in the Scottish Enlightenment - David W. Allan Medievalism and Social Reform at the Academy of San Fernando in Spain (1759-1808) - Matilde Mateo The Hero as Editor: Sidney Lanier's Medievalism and the Science of Manhood - Marya DeVoto Memories of the Comtesse de Die: Maurras, Mistral, and Medievalists - Stephen Steele Naming and Un-naming Violence against Women: German Historiography and the Cult of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia - Ulrike Wiethaus The Autumns of Johan Huizinga - James C. Kennedy Ernst Robert Curtius: The Achievement of a Humanist - William Calin Shifting Paradigms and the Development of Hypermedia Editions - Jesse D. Hurlbut Merciless and Merciful Ladies: Some Considerations in Moving from Print to Electronic Editions of Medieval Texts - Joan Grenier-Winther Technology and Philology Today - William Paden Jr

About the Author :
GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of English and Related Literature at University of York, York, UK. Margaret Clunies Ross is an Emeritus Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Honorary Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. She has written extensively on Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, poetry and myth.