Medieval Imagery in Today's Politics
The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of "old Europe" and "tradition" to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and retu...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leeds
Arc Humanities Press
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Past Imperfect
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of "old Europe" and "tradition" to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the "medieval" is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781942401414 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781942401414 |