Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Towards a Subaltern Medieval Unconscious?

pp 1-16

Part I - Radicalism and Medievalism

pp 17-18

1 - Catholicism and Constitutionalism in William Cobbett’s English and Irish Medievalism

pp 19-38

2 - Resisting Medievalism: The ‘Mediaeval Mania’ and the Working-Class Press

pp 39-54

3 - How Radical was Rienzi? The Nineteenth-Century Representation of the Roman Revolutionary Republican in the British Cultural Imagination

pp 55-74

Part II - Chartism and Medievalism

pp 75-76

4 - Chartism and Medievalism: Retrospective Radicalism in the English Nineteenth Century

pp 77-90

5 - Making Sense of Chartism’s Multiple Medievalisms

pp 91-109

6 - Rousing ‘the Spirit of Wat Tyler’: Chartist Newspaper Portrayals of the Rebel Leader

pp 110-124

Part III - Socialism, Feminism and Medievalism

pp 125-126

7 - The Cause of Liberty: Ford Madox Brown, Augustus Welby Pugin and Victorian Medievalism

pp 127-142

8 - Serfs, Saints and Comrades: Working-Class Medievalism and the Narratives of Victorian Socialism

pp 143-159

9 - Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives and the Commune of Saints

pp 160-174

10 - Finding the Present in the Past: Suffrage Medievalism in the Pages of Votes for Women

pp 175-192

Bibliography

pp 193-204

Index

pp 205-212

Medievalism

pp 213-214