TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wollenberg,Daniel
TI  - Medieval Imagery in Today's Politics
T2  - Past Imperfect
SN  - 9781942401407
AV  - CB353 .W656 2018
U1  - 909.07 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Leeds : 
PB  - Arc Humanities Press, 
KW  - Medievalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Middle Ages in popular culture
KW  - Extremism
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Politics
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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