“Eternal Legends of the Crimes of Man”: The Merovingian Dynasty in Early American Media (1720–1820)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. Part I: Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
7. Public Medievalism: Fustel de Coulanges and the Case for “Diplomatic Negotiations” 1
8. Rob from the Rich: The Neomedievalism of the Robinhood Stock App 13
9. Pandemic Politics: Deploying the Plague 21
10. Peter Gill and the Queering of the York Realist 29
11. To Be a Monkish Man: Medievalism, Monasticism, Education, and Gender in the United States’ Culture Wars 37
12. Political Fictions: The “Aryan” Medievalisms of Harold A. Covington 45
13. Part II: Other Responses to Medievalism
14. The Ancient Finnish Kings and their Swedish Archenemy: Nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Alt-Right Memes in Finnish Online Medievalism 55
15. The Politics of Norse Medievalism in the British Press during the First World War 79
16. A Tournament of Black Knights – Alexandria, Virginia, 1865 – Emancipationists Mobilize the Medieval 107
17. “Eternal Legends of the Crimes of Man”: The Merovingian Dynasty in Early American Media (1720–1820) 137
18. Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling’s Medievalist Imagination 159
19. Agustina Bessa-Luís’s Reinvention of St. António: A Loving Saint without an Altar 177
20. Celtic Imaginary: From Medieval Dama-Pé-de-Cabra to Nineteenth- Century Patriotic Versions 201
21. Contributors 231