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  • Eyes Across the Channel
    Clare A. Simmons
    This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature. ...
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    61,12 €

  • Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
    Clare A Simmons
    A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that nineteenth-century Britons asked themselves: which was more fun: living in their own time, or living in the Middle Ages? While Britain was b...
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    28,52 €

  • Medievalism and the Quest for the Real Middle Ages
    Clare A. Simmons
    The essays in this collection suggest that the search for knowledge of a 'real' Middle Ages has always been a problematic one, and that the vitality of the vision of Medievalism is demonstrated by its constant adaption to current concerns. ...
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    89,82 €