IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 741: The Use and Abuse of the Middle Ages in the Modern World, III: Imagination and Representation
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | CARMEN: Worldwide Medieval Network |
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| Organisers: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester Katherine Weikert, Department of Archaeology / Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Patricia E. Skinner, Department of History, University of Winchester / Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 741-a | Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: The Use of Braveheart in Scottish Politics (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 741-b | Don't Give a Damn about My Bad Reputation: Feminism, Fiction, and the Empress Matilda (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought |
| Paper 741-c | Medievalism, Fiction, and Politics from G. K. Chesterton to the Inklings (and beyond) (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session, the third of four considering the use or abuse of the Middle Ages in the modern world, examines fictions of and about the medieval world and their reinterpretation and representation in modern society. Papers will consider the political use of medievalized fictions, politics and political groups and romantic views of the past, and social movements of the modern world appropriating fictionalized heroes from the medieval past. This session will ultimately explore how the medieval in popular culture is represented in fictionalized forms to be moulded to modern political or social needs. |