Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany

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Synopsis
How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001). Emerging around the turn of the 20th century, the museums explore medieval German literature, cultural memory and local history. As the museums reconstruct and transform medieval narratives for the contemporary audience, they enact the process of medievalism: they reveal how memory, through the lens of the middle ages, shapes modern cultural identity and heritage. Medieval Literature on Display thereby contributes to important conversations about medievalism's role in constructing and affirming cultural identity, in conceptualizing and finding places for the future of the past.This unique book is vital reading for scholars of medieval literature and historians of medieval Europe, as well as scholars of visual culture and museum studies.
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781786726278
Related ISBNs:
9781788316897
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, 2
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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