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The making of the Middle Ages, Liverpool essays, edited by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale

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The making of the Middle Ages

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edited by Marios Costambeys, Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale

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Liverpool essays

Liverpool’s contribution to the modern construction of the middle ages is here recognized for the first time. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Merseyside have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as Celtic philology and manuscript collecting, each in their own way contributing to our steadily deepening understanding of the real middle ages, and to the widening use to which images of the middle ages have been put. Merseyside presents in microcosm the different building blocks of the modern middle ages. In addition to its local focus, this book therefore also examines some of the most significant aspects of the modern study of the middle ages in the round. It offers fresh perspectives, from leading experts in their fields, on medieval Celtic languages, on English poetic literature, on heroes, on pageantry, on mystery plays, and on the effect of nationalist perspectives on the writing of medieval history. Tracing the burgeoning appreciation, in Merseyside and beyond, of the period in which the city was founded, this collection of essays is a fitting commemoration of Liverpool’s octocentenary.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction / Pauline Stafford -- The lure of Celtic languages, 1850-1914 / T.M. Charles-Edwards -- The use and abuse of the early Middle Ages, 1750-2000 / Ian Wood -- Whatever happened to your heroes? : Guy and Bevis after the Middle Ages / David Matthews -- Nature, masculinity, and suffering women : the remaking of the Flower and the leaf and Chaucer's Legend of good women in the nineteenth century / Helen Phillips -- Riding with Robin Hood : English pageantry and the making of a legend / John Marshall -- The antiquarians and the critics : the Chester plays and the criticism of early English drama / David Mills -- Making the Old North on Merseyside : a tale of three ships / Andrew Wawn -- Early nineteenth-century Liverpool collectors of late medieval illuminated manuscripts / Edward Morris -- Liverpool's Lorenzo de Medici / Arline Wilson -- Secular Gothic revival architecture in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool / Joseph Sharples