Types of 19th Century Medievalism
Greetings, my fantasy-loving students.
I’d like to share a juicy tidbit from Dr. Haydock’s lecture notes he was unable to get to. We’ll discuss this in class further.
Nineteenth Century Medievalism
Imperial medievalism—nationalism and colonialism
Romantic medievalism—Chivalry and Women
Architectural medievalism—Gothic Ornaments, restoration (John Ruskin The Stones of Venice & Morris’ ornaments)
Folkloric medievalism—(1880s Childs collects popular English and Scottish ballads) (medieval folklore as key to myth and civilization—C. G. Jung, Jessie Weston, J. G. Frazer, T. S. Eliot
Medievalism in painting—Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (e.g. Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Medievalist socialism and labor reform (Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present)
Scholarly Medievalism—recovery and printing of texts (e.g. The Early English Text Society)
Literary medievalism—(Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King)