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In Search of Lost Feeling: The Emotional History of Medievalism
Exemplaria ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 , DOI: 10.1080/10412573.2018.1464812
David Matthews 1
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Abstract The aim of this article is to chart sets of emotions and affects within medievalism over a longue durée. By “medievalism” I mean here chiefly artistic, cultural, and political reactions to the idea of the Middle Ages; reducing this even further, one could argue that “medievalism” is feeling about the Middle Ages at any given epoch. I select three exemplary moments, going first to the post-Reformation moment in which the medieval Catholic past was decisively rejected and in which, as a consequence, the very notion of the Middle Ages was invented and shaped. The primary emotional disposition here is that of fear and terror. Secondly, I look at the so-called medieval revival of the later eighteenth century when, whatever apprehensions remained about the Catholic medieval past, in the intellectual-antiquarian milieu of such figures as Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton, there is a form of “negative pleasure” (in Kant’s terminology) in the contemplation of the Middle Ages. Finally, in the period 1815–1850, I look not at the numerous instances from high- and middle-brow culture of conservative, celebratory medievalism in this period, but instead at the understudied archive of political uses of medievalism. I examine more subaltern reactions to the Middle Ages from ephemeral forms (specifically, newspapers and popular entertainment), which reveal a somewhat more fluid and variable set of feelings about the Middle Ages than an understanding of Walter Scott and his many legacies tends to offer.

中文翻译:

寻找失落的情感:中世纪的情感史

摘要本文的目的是绘制在duration贵妃椅上的中世纪情感和情感的图表。我所说的“中世纪主义”主要是对中世纪观念的艺术,文化和政治反应;进一步降低这一点,人们可能会争辩说,“中世纪”是在任何给定的时代对中世纪的感觉。我选择了三个典型的时刻,首先是改革后的时刻,在那个时刻,中世纪的天主教过去被果断地拒绝,因此,中世纪的观念被发明和塑造。这里主要的情感倾向是恐惧和恐怖。其次,我看的是18世纪后期的所谓中世纪复兴,当时人们对天主教的中世纪过去仍然存有忧虑,在托马斯·珀西和托马斯·沃顿这样的人物的知识文物古迹环境中,在对中世纪的沉思中存在一种“消极的快乐”(用康德的术语来说)。最后,在1815年至1850年期间,我不是看这个时期来自高中文化的保守的,庆祝性的中世纪主义的众多例子,而是看似对中世纪主义政治用途的研究不足。我考察了短暂形式(尤其是报纸和大众娱乐活动)对中世纪的次要反应,这些反应比对沃尔特·斯科特(Walter Scott)及其许多遗产所提供的理解,揭示了对中世纪的某种流动和多变的感觉。在1815年至1850年期间,我没有看过这一时期来自高中文化的保守的,庆祝性的中世纪主义的众多例子,而是研究了对中世纪主义的政治用途的未充分了解的档案。我考察了短暂形式(尤其是报纸和大众娱乐活动)对中世纪的次要反应,这些反应比对沃尔特·斯科特(Walter Scott)及其许多遗产所提供的理解,揭示了对中世纪的某种流动和多变的感觉。在1815年至1850年期间,我没有看过这一时期来自高中文化的保守的,庆祝性的中世纪主义的众多例子,而是研究了对中世纪主义的政治用途的未充分了解的档案。我考察了短暂形式(尤其是报纸和大众娱乐活动)对中世纪的次要反应,这些反应比对沃尔特·斯科特(Walter Scott)及其许多遗产所提供的理解,揭示了对中世纪的某种流动和多变的感觉。
更新日期:2018-06-18
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