Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Illustrations

pp ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-16

I - Internationally Nationalist

pp 4-5

1 - Making up the Middle Ages: Roman Scotland and Medievalism in the Eighteenth Century

pp 19-32

2 - Emma Letherbrow’s Gudrun: Kudrun for ‘Modern’ Victorians

pp 33-46

3 - Nationalism and Colonialism: The Early German Reception of The Tale of Igor’s Campaign

pp 47-58

4 - Inhabiting an Unpredictable Past: The Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Historicism

pp 59-76

II - Someone Else’s Past?

pp 77-78

5 - The Medievalism of Gregor Jordan’s Ned Kelly

pp 79-94

6 - ‘The Northland of Old’: The Use and ‘Misuse’ of (Medieval) Iceland

pp 95-110

7 - ‘Out of My Country and Myself I Go’: A Discourse of the Troubadour in British and Irish Literature

pp 111-126

8 - ‘The old magic of the mind’: The Influence of Wales and Medieval Welsh Literature in John Cowper Powys’s Maiden Castle

pp 127-140

III - Activist Medievalism

pp 141-142

9 - ‘Green Growing Pains’: The ‘Green Children of Woolpit’ and Child Refugees

pp 143-156

10 - Medievalisms of Welcome: Medieval Englishness and the Nation’s Migrant Other in Refugee Tales

pp 157-172

11 - Nordic Giants: Using Left-Wing Post-Rock to Deepen Our Understandings of White Supremacist Interpretations of Vikings

pp 173-188

12 - ‘The Great Original Suffragist’: Joan of Arc as a Symbol in the US Women’s Suffrage Movement

pp 189-204

Index

pp 205-214

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 215-216