A Desire for Origins: The Marginal Robin Hood of the Later Ballads

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Editorial Note xi
6. I: Medievalism on the Margins: Some Perspective(s)
7. Medievalism in the Margins: Paratexts and the Packaging of Medieval French Literature 1
8. Medievalism Studies and the Subject of Religion 11
9. Pop Medievalism 21
10. Ecomedievalism: Applying Ecotheory to Medievalism and Neomedievalism 31
11. Whiteness and Time: The Once, Present, and Future Race 39
12. A Desire for Origins: The Marginal Robin Hood of the Later Ballads 51
13. Women, Queerness, and Massive Chalice: Medievalism in Participatory Culture 63
14. “Constant inward looking,” Medieval Devotional Literature, and the Concordium-Fruitlands Library 75
15. II: Trans-Atlantic Medievalism(s)
16. Speaking of the Middle Ages Today: European and Transatlantic Perspectives 89
17. Echoes from the Middle Ages: Tales of Chivalry, Romances, and Nation-building in Spain (1750–1850) 93
18. Antiquarianism over Presentism: Reflections on Spanish Medieval Studies 115
19. Medievalism and the Contemporaneity of the Medieval in Postcolonial Brazil 139
20. III: Other Interpretations
21. The Middle Ages Are within Your Grasp: Motor Neurons, Mirror Neurons, Simulacra, and Imagining the Past 155
22. Alfred the Little: Medievalism, Politics, and the Poet Laureate 177
23. Swords, Sorcery, and Steam: The Industrial Dark Ages in Contemporary Medievalism 193
24. Modern-day Ring-givers: MMORPG Guild Cultures and the Influence of the Anglo-Saxon World 217
25. Contributors 237
26. Previously published volumes 243