This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.
This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.
Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Susan Aronstein is a professor of English and Honors at the University of Wyoming.
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Introduction Built in the United States of America: Constructing a Medieval Past Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein Part I: Building the American Middle Ages 1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge Kathleen Coyne Kelly 2. Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn - and Philadelphia’s Other Medieval(ist) Jewels Kevin J. Harty 3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, D.C. Laurie Finke 4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siècle Alfred Thomas Part II: Living in the American Middle Ages 5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta Richard Utz 6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross Candace Barrington 7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones Jana K. Schulman 8. "I yearned for a strange land and a people that had the charm of originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia Alison Gulley 9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism Lowell Gallagher Part III: Playing in the American Middle Ages 10. Orlando’s Medieval Heritage Project Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein 11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans’s Medievalisms Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington 12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May-Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary Texas Lorraine Kochanske Stock 13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman Notes on Contributors
Introduction Built in the United States of America: Constructing a Medieval Past Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein Part I: Building the American Middle Ages 1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and Cambridge Kathleen Coyne Kelly 2. Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn - and Philadelphia’s Other Medieval(ist) Jewels Kevin J. Harty 3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, D.C. Laurie Finke 4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siècle Alfred Thomas Part II: Living in the American Middle Ages 5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern Atlanta Richard Utz 6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross Candace Barrington 7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and Runestones Jana K. Schulman 8. "I yearned for a strange land and a people that had the charm of originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval Appalachia Alison Gulley 9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism Lowell Gallagher Part III: Playing in the American Middle Ages 10. Orlando’s Medieval Heritage Project Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein 11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans’s Medievalisms Usha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington 12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May-Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary Texas Lorraine Kochanske Stock 13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman Notes on Contributors
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