#neomedievalism

[disgruntledexplainer]

feel free to reblog your own version

[olasde-mar]

what fun little times we live in for a former* medieval and second world war history obsessed nd kid

[nymphesd]

Truth or Fantasy: The Hennin

On Hennins and their presence in contemporary fashion

Good news is: I have also written it in English...

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[buffyboleyn]

This  ,by Kyle Kallgren of Channel Awesome, my favourite intellectual video analysis of Game of Thrones ever.

[wildeanwithoutaclue]

Château de Pierrefonds, France.

It was renovated and basically rebuilt from scratch in the XIXth century by Viollet-le-Duc, on order by Louis Napoléon Bonaparte.

[medievaliz]

"The neomedieval is a vast compilation in its own right, in which form, practice, and principle cannot and should not be separated. Perhaps the best approach is to worry less about what, precisely, it is and to spend more time thinking about what it does and why it does it."

Lauryn S. Mayer.  "Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s)," Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 75

[medievaliz]

At one end of the spectrum, the neomedieval encourages the substitution of superficial understanding, the 'gist' gathering of cultural bits and pieces, for real knowledge and understanding of the Middle Ages. On the other, it offers the insights of a space in which the medieval can 'speak back' from the margins to which it has been confined by the domination of the modern.

Lesley Coote.  "A Short Essay About Neomedievalism," Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 32

[medievaliz]

Neomedievalism is not as interested in creating or recreating the Middle Ages as it is in assimilating and consuming it. The danger of assimilation, of course, is that the essence and the beauty of difference can be lost.

Amy S. Kaufman. "Medieval Unmoored," Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 5.