In Woden’s Shadow: Anglo-Saxonism, Paganism, and Politics in Modern England

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. I: Essays on Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
6. Medievalism and Gulf-War Politics in Tariq Ali’s A Sultan in Palermo 1
7. Czech Political Medievalism: Tomáš G. Masaryk and Petr Chelčický 9
8. Robin Hood Political Memes: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Far Right’s Appropriation of the English Outlaw 19
9. Cry George: Grounding English National Identity in the Age of Brexit 29
10. “Once More into the Breach!”: Allusions to Agincourt and the Medieval Past in Cross-Channel Political Reporting of Brexit 53
11. Rest in Gold: A Medieval-Like Memorial for German Soldiers at El Alamein 75
12. Provenance and Reception of Iberian Chivalric Books in English from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589) 107
13. In Woden’s Shadow: Anglo-Saxonism, Paganism, and Politics in Modern England 129
14. The West Remembers (Its Premodern Self): Nation, Civilization, and the Insular Middle Ages in Game of Thrones 157
15. II: Other Responses to Medievalism
16. The Emasculation of Theon Greyjoy 175
17. George R. R. Martin and the Virgin Martyr: Misogyno-feminism and the (Ab)uses of the Past 187
18. The Composite Unity of the Entangled Self in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife 203
19. Fit for Print, Not for Spectacle: Ringling Bros. and the Careful Exploitation of Joan of Arc 229
20. Contributors 253