Lees, C.A;
Overing, G.R;
(2019)
The Contemporary Medieval in Practice.
[Book].
Spotlights.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Contemporary arts, both practice and methods, offer medieval scholars innovative ways to examine, explore, and reframe the past. Medievalists offer contemporary studies insights into cultural works of the past that have been made or reworked in the present. Creative-critical writing invites the adaptation of scholarly style using forms such as the dialogue, short essay, and the poem; these are, the authors argue, appropriate ways to explore innovative pathways from the contemporary to the medieval, and vice versa. Speculative and non-traditional, The Contemporary Medieval in Practice adapts the conventional scholarly essay to reflect its cross-disciplinary, creative subject. This book ‘does’ Medieval Studies differently by bringing it into relation with the field of contemporary arts and by making ‘practice’, in the sense used by contemporary arts and by creative-critical writing, central to it. Intersecting with a number of urgent critical discourses and cultural practices, such as the study of the environment and the ethics of understanding bodies, identities, and histories, this short, accessible book offers medievalists a distinctive voice in multi-disciplinary, trans-chronological, collaborative conversations about the Humanities. Its subject is early medieval British culture, often termed Anglo-Saxon Studies (c. 500–1100), and its relation with, use of, and re-working in contemporary visual, poetic, and material culture (after 1950).
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Contemporary Medieval in Practice |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787354654 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787354654 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354654 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors, 2019 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2019 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non- derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Lees, C.A., and Overing, G.R. 2019. The Contemporary Medieval in Practice. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354654 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons license, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | Medieval, arts practice, creative writing |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082893 |
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