The making of the Middle Ages : Liverpool essays
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The making of the Middle Ages : Liverpool essays
Liverpool University Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252)
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Pauline Stafford
- The lure of Celtic languages, 1850-1914 / T.M. Charles-Edwards
- The use and abuse of the early Middle Ages, 1750-2000 / Ian Wood
- Whatever happened to your heroes? : Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages / David Matthews
- Nature, masculinity, and suffering women : the remaking of the Flower and the leaf and Chaucer's Legend of good women in the nineteenth century / Helen Phillips
- Riding with Robin Hood : English pageantry and the making of a legend / John Marshall
- The antiquarians and the critics : the Chester plays and the criticism of early English drama / David Mills
- Making the Old North on Merseyside : a tale of three ships / Andrew Wawn
- Early nineteenth-century Liverpool collectors of late medieval illuminated manuscripts / Edward Morris
- Liverpool's Lorenzo de Medici / Arline Wilson
- Secular Gothic revival architecture in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool / Joseph Sharples
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Liverpool's contribution to the modern construction of the middle ages is here recognized for the first time. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Merseyside have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as Celtic philology and manuscript collecting, each in their own way contributing to our steadily deepening understanding of the real middle ages, and to the widening use to which images of the middle ages have been put. Merseyside presents in microcosm the different building blocks of the modern middle ages. In addition to its local focus, this book therefore also examines some of the most significant aspects of the modern study of the middle ages in the round. It offers fresh perspectives, from leading experts in their fields, on medieval Celtic languages, on English poetic literature, on heroes, on pageantry, on mystery plays, and on the effect of nationalist perspectives on the writing of medieval history. Tracing the burgeoning appreciation, in Merseyside and beyond, of the period in which the city was founded, this collection of essays is a fitting commemoration of Liverpool's octocentenary.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Pauline Stafford
The Lure of Celtic Languages, 1850-1914
T. M. Charles-Edwards
The Use and Abuse of the Early Middle Ages, 1750-2000
Ian Wood
Whatever Happened to Your Heroes? Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages
David Matthews
Nature, Masculinity, and Suffering Women: The Remaking of the Flower and the Leaf and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women in the Nineteenth Century
Helen Phillips
Riding with Robin Hood: English Pageantry and the Making of a Legend
John Marshall
The Antiquarians and the Critics: The Chester Plays and the Criticism of Early English Drama
David Mills
Making the Old North on Merseyside: A Tale of Three Ships
Andrew Wawn
Early Nineteenth-Century Liverpool Collectors of Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
Edward Morris
Liverpool's Lorenzo de Medici
Arline Wilson
Secular Gothic Revival Architecture in Mid- Nineteenth-Century Liverpool
Joseph Sharples
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