Medievalism
Articles
- Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty and Medievalism
This essay attempts to bring into conversation two unlikely bodies of writing. One of these bodies of writing dates from the Middle Ages and might…
1 November 2011 - Parliamentary Medievalism: The Australian Magna Carta as Secular Relic
'This essay explores the ongoing importance of this medieval text Magna Carta, as a powerful legimitating symbol of parliamentary democracy, and an example of institutional…
1 November 2011 - Dreaming of the Middle Ages: The Place of the ‘mittelalterlich’ and Socialist Awareness in Christina’s Stead’s Early Fiction
The Middle Ages have proved to be imaginatively a fluid and artistically enticing entity. As Umberto Eco has underscored, many have turned to the Middle…
1 November 2011 - Grievous Music: Randolph Stow’s Middle Ages
Randolph Stow's poem 'Outrider', which forms the epigraph to Stow's 1981 novel The Girl Green as Elderflower, tells of loss, dislocation, and 'ancestral ghosts'…
1 November 2011 - Under the Angle: Memory, History, and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Nineteenth-century Europe was treated to the spectacle of numerous performance genres imaginatively representing the Middle Ages. In portraying this period, music, theatre, visual spectacle, and…
1 November 2011 - ‘I have so many truths to tell’: Randolph Stow’s Visitants and The Girl Green as Elderflower
Discusses Stow's medievalism in The Girl Green as Elderflower and Visitants. 'In its indirect and playful form [Stow's medievalism] offers reparation for colonial visiting…
1 May 2011 - C. J. Brennan’s A Chant of Doom: Australia’s Medieval War
CHRISTOPHER Brennan's propagandist A Chant ofDoom (1918) has very little value as poetry, and what critics have said about it is adequately damning. Judith Wright's…
1 May 2007 - Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism: Introduction
Ada Cambridge's description of 'The Chase', the imposing Norfolk seat of the Desailly family, in her 1897 novella 'At Midnight', captures in a single architectural…
1 October 2011 - ‘Are We the Future of the Past?’ : Gothic Pasts, Gothic Futures, and Imaginary Lives
‘Peter Otto’s essay … argues that the novel’s temporal frame, and its evocation of a species of Gothicism, challenges conventional periodisation’ (p.4). The author argues…
1 October 2011 - ‘Cutting off the Head of the King’: Sovereignty, Feudalism, Fantasy
Australian adult fantasy fiction of the last fifteen years has been significant in its volume, penetration, and international success. Perhaps paradoxically, these texts are notable…
1 October 2011 - The Return of the Fairy: Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young
'The title of this essay refers to the trajectory of fairy narratives in Australia, which comprised a prominent component of cultural production for children in…
1 October 2011 - Marvellous Melbourne’s Middle Ages: The Burlesque Extravaganzas of W. M. Akhurst
‘Lynch’s exploration of nineteenth-century Australian burlesque argues that while colonial Australia participated in a larger irreverent, comic culture of popular medievalism, its apparent irreverence toward…
1 October 2011 - Meta-Medievalism and the Future of the Past in the ‘Australian Girl’ Novel
‘Through an examination of works by four late nineteenth-century women writers … which explores their differing intersections with medievalism as a temporal discourse, this essay…
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Contributors
- Michael Ackland
- Clare Bradford
- Seeta Chagariti
- Melanie Duckworth
- Louise D'Arcens
- Louise D'Arcens
- John Ganim
- Andrew Lynch
- Andrew Lynch
- Andrew Lynch
- Andrew Lynch
- Peter Otto
- Stephanie Trigg
- Stephanie Trigg
- Kim Wilkins