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Medieval Imagery in Today's Politics / Daniel Wollenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Past ImperfectPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781942401407
  • 9781942401414
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.07 23
LOC classification:
  • CB353 .W656 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Past Awakening -- Chapter 1. Getting Political -- Chapter 2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe -- Chapter 3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins -- Chapter 4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism -- Postscript. The Eternal Return of the Medieval -- Further Reading
Summary: The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of "old Europe" and "tradition" to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781942401414

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Past Awakening -- Chapter 1. Getting Political -- Chapter 2. Extremes: The Middle Ages on the Fringe -- Chapter 3. Inheritance, Roots, Traditions: Discovering Medieval Origins -- Chapter 4. Anxious Returns: The New Feudalism and New Medievalism -- Postscript. The Eternal Return of the Medieval -- Further Reading

The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of "old Europe" and "tradition" to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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