National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century: Switzerland and Britain 9781843846574, 9781805430629, 9781805430636

National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century: Switzerland and Britain 9781843846574, 9781805430629, 9781805430636

How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxiet

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Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century: Medievalism and National Crisis 9781843846529, 9781800109339, 9781800109346

Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history bu

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Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism "From Below" in Nineteenth-Century Britain 1843845784, 9781843845782, 9781787448575

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite. This book offers a c

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Subaltern Medievalisms : Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9781843845782, 9781787448575, 9781800101432, 1843845784

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National Geographic Traveler: Switzerland 9781426208607, 142620860X

From bustling Zurich to the Swiss capital of Bern, from the Matterhorn in Zermatt to the Italian-speaking canton of Tici

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The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53 9781847793010

This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book com

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Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century 184384463X, 9781843844631

In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade". His commen

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Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century 9781843844631, 184384463X

In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a -Crusade-. His comments, howeve

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Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood 019820728X, 9780198207283

Scholars continue to find that fictional narratives provide rich insight into the historical development of a modern nat

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Studies in Medievalism XXIII. Ethics and Medievalism [23] 1843843765, 9781843843764

Ethics in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume. The six opening essays tackle s

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