Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from above evidenced in the work of Walter Scott, in the Eglinton Tournament, and in endless Victorian depictions of armour-clad knights. Whilst some previous scholars have warned that medievalism should ...