The Negative Erotics of Medievalism

Author / Editor
Prendergast, Thomas, and Stephanie Trigg.

Title
The Negative Erotics of Medievalism

Published
Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 117-37.

Description
The authors contemplate the relationship of medievalism to medieval studies, considering several (re)constructions of the Middle Ages, including Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale and various critics' efforts to gloss "queynte." Such considerations reveal more about the desires of the present than about the nature of the past.

Contributor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Alternative Title
The Post-Historical Middle Ages

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films.
Language and Word Studies