Medieval Literature on Display

Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-78831-689-7 (ISBN)

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How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001). Emerging around the turn of the 20th century, the museums explore medieval German literature, cultural memory and local history. As the museums reconstruct and transform medieval narratives for the contemporary audience, they enact the process of medievalism: they reveal how memory, through the lens of the middle ages, shapes modern cultural identity and heritage.

Medieval Literature on Display thereby contributes to important conversations about medievalism’s role in constructing and affirming cultural identity, in conceptualizing and finding places for the future of the past.

This unique book is vital reading for scholars of medieval literature and historians of medieval Europe, as well as scholars of visual culture and museum studies.

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand is Professor of German and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, USA. She is the author of Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance: Studies in Medieval History and Culture (2001), as well as articles on medieval German literature and its afterlives from the middle ages to the present.

Preface
Introduction: Wolframs Eschenbach: A Statue and Story
Chapter 1: Medievalism and Memory
Chapter 2: Adapting Medieval Narratives
Chapter 3: A Knight at the Museum: Medieval Literature and/as Local Heritage at the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach
Chapter 4: The Machinery of Myth: The Nibelung Museum and the Interrogation of Cultural Memory
Chapter 5: Presencing the Narrative Past: Old Structures, New Stories
Chapter 6: The Future of the Past: Medieval Literature on Display
Figures
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78831-689-4 / 1788316894
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-689-7 / 9781788316897
Zustand	Neuware