Medievalism and theories of temporality

Trigg, Stephanie; D'Arcens, Louise

doi:10.1017/cco9781316091708.014

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“…15 For more on the relationship between medievalism and metaphors of space and motion, see Trigg (2016).…”

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Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval

Armstrong,

Menmuir

2024

Postmedieval

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Fakes and forgeries capture the imagination like little else, and once embedded in the public and academic consciousness they tend to be the subject of intense and recurring debate. In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson had already firmly quashed any notion of the epic Ossian being the ancient poem that its 'translator'-in fact, its author-James Macpherson had claimed it to be (Johnson and Boswell 2020, 96); but Magnus Linklater's 2021 review of John McShane's modernised edition ran with the headline, 'What if the hoax of Ossian is true after all?' (Linklater 2021). Striking a similar tone is the headline of a New European article from 2023: 'Is the Turin Shroud real after all?' (Totaro 2023), a question posed amidst the careful neutrality of the Catholic Editors' introduction: Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval

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“…15 For more on the relationship between medievalism and metaphors of space and motion, see Trigg (2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval

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Menmuir

2024

Postmedieval

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“…At every point an encounter with the premodern past is also underpinned by a consciousness about the writer's relationship with that past-an active negotiation of time and temporality. Other scholars have written about the various ways in which medievalism of all sorts intersects with concepts and understandings of temporality (Trigg 2016). The medieval and early modern periods have been at the center of scholarship about a "cultural history of time" (Le Goff 1960;Burke 2004).…”

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