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The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation's communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American.The volume's chapters visit the nation's many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California's San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City's churches, Boston's gardens, Philadelphia's Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando's Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota's Viking Villages, New Orleans's Mardi Gras, and the Las Vegas Strip. As the editors and their fellow essayists take the reader on this cross-country trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation's medievalized spaces.In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of medievalism on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages.
Contents
IntroductionBuilt in the United States of America: Constructing a Medieval PastTison Pugh and Susan AronsteinPart I: Building the American Middle Ages1. Translatio Horti: Medievalized Gardens in Boston and CambridgeKathleen Coyne Kelly2. Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn - and Philadelphia's Other Medieval(ist) JewelsKevin J. Harty3. The Masonic Medievalism of Washington, D.C.Laurie Finke4. Medieval Chicago: Architecture, Patronage, and Capital at the Fin de Siecle Alfred ThomasPart II: Living in the American Middle Ages5. Three Vignettes and a White Castle: Knighthood and Race in Modern AtlantaRichard Utz6. Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the CrossCandace Barrington7. Minnesota Medieval: Dragons, Knights, and RunestonesJana K. Schulman8. "I yearned for a strange land and a people that had the charm of originality": Searching for Salvation in Medieval AppalachiaAlison Gulley9. Wounded Landscapes: Topographies of Franciscan Spirituality and Deep Ecology in California Medievalism Lowell GallagherPart III: Playing in the American Middle Ages10. Orlando's Medieval Heritage Project Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein11. Saints and Sinners: New Orleans's MedievalismsUsha Vishnuvajjala and Candace Barrington12. Sherwood Forest Faire: Evoking Medieval May-Games, Robin Hood Revels, and Twentieth-Century "Pleasure Faires" in Contemporary TexasLorraine Kochanske Stock13. Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin CityLaurie Finke and Martin ShichtmanNotes on Contributors
