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Introduction / Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones -- Part I. Medievalism in politics and histories. Thorkel Farserk goes for a swim : climate change, the Medieval optimum, and the perils of amateurism / Bruce Holsinger -- "The North remembers" : the uses and abuses of the Middle Ages in Irish political culture / Eamon Byers, Stephen Kelly and Kath Stevenson -- Writing the nation : historians and national identities from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Patrick Geary -- War, church, empire and the Medieval in British histories for children / Andrew Lynch -- Part II. Practising medievalism. "Adventure? What is that?" On Iwein / Felicitas Hoppe -- Saints' cults and celebrity : the Medieval legacy / James Robinson -- Is Medieval music the new avant-garde? The wilful, the wayward and the playful / Graham Coatman -- Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian politics through the archival lens / Fani Gargova -- Digital mouvance : once and future Medieval poetry remediated in the modern world / Chris Jones -- Forging "Medieval" identities : Fortini's Calendimaggio and Pasolini's Trilogy of life / Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri and Lila Yawn -- Part III. Medievalism in literature and culture. Chaucer's and Wordsworth's vivid daisies / Elizabeth Robertson -- Time, place, language and translation : Ciaran Carson's The inferno and the táin / Conor McCarthy -- Visuality, violence and the return of the Middle Ages : Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as an adaptation of the Nibelungen story / Bettina Bildhauer -- Black skin, green masks : Medieval foliate heads, racial trauma, and queer world-making / Carolyn Dinshaw -- The medium is the Byzantine : popular culture and the Byzantine / Roland Betancourt The Middle Ages continue to provide an important touchstone for the way the modern West presents itself and its relationship with the rest of the globe. This volume brings together leading scholars of literature and history, together with musicians, novelists, librarians, and museum curators in order to present exciting, up-to-date perspectives on how and why the Middle Ages continue to matter in the 20th and 21st centuries. Presented here, their essays represent a unique dialogue between scholars and practitioners of 'medievalism'
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