Back to the Future: Living the Liminal Life in the Manor House and the Medieval Dream

Author / Editor
McCormick, Betsy.

Title
Back to the Future: Living the Liminal Life in the Manor House and the Medieval Dream

Published
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 91-117.

Description
McCormick compares LGW and Christine de Pisan's "Le livre de la citeĢ des dames" with the reality TV show "Manor House," exploring how each poses a "liminal space" from which to "contemplate societal stereotypes and strictures by revisiting the past."

Alternative Title
Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women