The Breaking Point: Alain de Benoist’s Critique of Medieval Nominalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. I: Medievalism and Authenticity
7. Introduction: Medievalism as Colony and Conqueror: Reflections after MAMO 1
8. Genealogies of the Early Gothic: Forging Authenticity 13
9. The Rituals of St. Agnes and the Lure of Authenticity 23
10. Mediating Medieval(ized) Emotion in Game of Thrones 35
11. A Princess of Color amid Whitewashed Medievalisms in Disney’s Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor 43
12. The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism and Constructs of Historical Authenticity 53
13. II: Other Responses to Medievalism (and Authenticity)
14. The Breaking Point: Alain de Benoist’s Critique of Medieval Nominalism 65
15. “This Most Historic of Locations”: Performing Authentic Nationhood at Hastings and Morgarten 85
16. Kingdoms of Infinite Space: Three Responses to the Kingis Quair 103
17. Vincent van Gogh, Dante, and the Studio of the South 123
18. Surrealist Medievalism: A Case Study 151
19. III: Early Music (and Authenticity) in Films and Video Games
20. Introduction 181
21. Beyond (the) Halo: Chant in Video Games 183
22. A Plague of Medievalism upon You All: Medievalism, Music, and the Plague 201
23. The Past is a Different Planet: Sounding Medievalism in Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God 227
24. Contributors 251