Features twelve essays that discuss how the middle ages are reflected in English culture from the sixteenth century.

Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom, investigate reinventions of the middle ages in English culture from the end of sixteenth century to the present day. Topics addressed include medievalism in English popular literature; Sir Walter Scott's 'Sir Tristrem'; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Chaucer; George Stephens and Old Northern philology; Anglo-Saxonism and the Franco-Prussian War; Dante and the Victorian historical sense; the Grail paintings of G.F. Watts; heterogeneity and the Kelmscott Chaucer; revivals of the Chester Mystery plays; and the cinematic art of Terry Gilliam. KATHLEEN VERDUIN is Professor of English, Hope College, Michigan. The contributors are: JOHN SIMONS, DAVID MATTHEWS, ALAN LUPACK, KAREN HODDER, ANDREW WAWN, MARILYNN LINCOLN BOARD, CLARE SIMMONS, ALISON MILBANK, DIANA ARCHIBALD, DAVID MILLS, RICHARD H. OSBERG

Medievalism as cultural process in pre-industrial popular literature, John Simons
Percy, the antiquarians, the ballad, and the Middle Ages, Gwendolyn A. Morgan
"Quaint Inglis" - Walter Scott and the rise of Middle English studies, David Matthews
"Sir Tristrem" - reception and perception, Alan Lupack
George Stephens, Cheapinghaven, and old northern antiquity, Andrew Wawn
Elizabeth Barrett and the Middle Ages' woeful queens, Karen Hodder
Anglo-Saxonism, the future, and the Franco-Prussian War, Clare A. Simmons
modernizing the Grail quest - gender, theology and allegory in the iconography of G.F. Watts, Marilynn Lincoln Board
Dante, the Victorians and the distancing of history, Alison Milbank
beauty, unity and the ideal - wholeness and heterogeneity in the Kelmscott "Chaucer", Diana C. Archibald
replaying the medieval past - revivals of Chester's Mystery Plays, David Mills
pages torn from the book - narrative disintegration in Gilliam's "The Fisher King", Richard H. Osberg.