Abstract
The field which by consensus is today known as ‘medievalism studies’, and which examines all forms of postmedieval recreation of medieval phenomena, has passed through the classic phases of a new area of inquiry: initially rejected as not being the proper stuff of the medievalist’s work, it was then tolerated so long as it remained within the confines of such specialist journals as Studies in Medievalism. With the years, respectability has come, and today medievalism has taken its place among the sessions of all the major conferences on medieval studies. Despite acceptance, however, this field or subdiscipline lacks a defining, canonical statement. Perhaps it always will; it is incredibly difficult to summarize something that has taken place in many different cultures across centuries in a wide range of cultural forms. It is hard to be definitive about something that takes in Keats’s ‘Eve of St Agnes’ at one end, and a Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament in Florida at the other. The consequence is that there is any number of case studies in medievalism but relatively little framework around them.
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