Karl Fugelso 
Studies in Medievalism XX 
Defining Neomedievalism(s) II

An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.


Following on from previous issues, this volume continues to explore definitions of neomedievalism and its relationship to traditional medievalism. In four essays that open the volume, Harry Brown, Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, and Nils Holger Petersen underscore the elusive nature of distinctions between the two fields, particularly when assessing contemporary film, music, and electronic media. Seven articles then test the need for these distinctions, on subject matter ranging from Sir Walter Scott as a historian; M. E. Braddon’s gendered medievalism; friendship models in Mary Elizabeth Haweis’s Chaucer for Children; Jorge Luis Borges’s Northern interests; medieval practices in Ellis Peters’s Cadfael novels; innovative exhibits at the Museum of Wolframs-Eschenbach; and Celtic patterns in modern tattoos. Theory and practice are thus juxtaposed once again in a volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest growing areas of academia.


Contributors: Harry Brown, Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, Nils Holger Petersen, Mark B. Spencer, Megan L. Morris, Karla Knutson, Vladimir Brljak, Alan T. Gaylord, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Maggie M. Williams

Table of Content

Editorial Note –

Baphomet Incorporated, A Case Study in Neomedievalism – Harry Brown

[Re]producing [Neo]medievalism – Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick

Neomedievalism, Identification, and the Haze of Medievalisms – David W. Marshall

Medieval Resurfacings, Old and New – Nils Holger Petersen

Quentin Durward and Louis XI: Sir Walter Scott as Historian – Mark B. Spencer

Chivalric Terrors: The Gendered Perils of Medievalism in M. E. Braddon’s
Lady Audley’s Secret – Megan Morris

‘Lessons Fairer than Flowers’: Mary Elizabeth Haweis’s
Chaucer for Children and Models of Friendship – Karla Knutson

Borges and the North – Vladimir Brljak

O Rare Ellis Peters: Two Rules for Medieval Murder – Alan T. Gaylord

Performing Medieval Literature and/as History: The Museum of Wolframs-Eschenbach – Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Celtic Tattoos: Ancient, Medieval, and Postmodern – Maggie Williams

Notes on Contributors

About the author

KELLYANN FITZPATRICK is an affiliated researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology.