Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-098-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Arc Medievalist

Although scholars are increasingly engaged with medievalism as a global phenomenon, its manifestations in the popular cultures of East and Central Europe are relatively unexamined. In a period of regional unrest, invocations of the medieval in Slavic regions are often political. Politicians use the past for nationalistic reasons. Popular renderings, such as animated films, can also appeal to nationalist sentiment. Yet, although medievalist appeals have been fundamental to official myths of nation-formation, they are also integral to countercultural ideologies. Medieval fantasy literature has traditionally provided one such nexus. More recently, medievalism has emerged in carnivalesque elements of pop punk music. Medievalisms also exist in the play spaces of reenactments of medieval life and combat. Yet even in play, these acts are never neutral: controlling the story of the past always has consequences in the now.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Czarnowus, Anna

Ryan, Laurel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction. "Creative, Political, and Lived Medievalisms in Slavic Popular Culture," by Anna Czarnowus and Laurel Ryan

Chapter 1. "The Wolin Village in Poland as a Site of Politicized Living History," by Anna Czarnowus

Chapter 2. "Modern Knights: An Analysis of the Tools and Modes of Medieval Combat Reenactment in Central and Eastern Europe," by Przemyslaw Grabowski-Górniak

Chapter 3. "Mieszko and the Piasts in Polish Law and Justice (PiS) Political Discourse," by Chris Halsted

Chapter 4. "Creativity and Interpretation: Medievalism in the Soviet Unofficial Culture of the Stagnation Period (1964–1984)," by Pavel S. Bychkov

Chapter 5. "Medieval Figures of Reversal in Texts of Polish Alternative Music," by Adam Regiewicz

Chapter 6. "Satirizing Political Culture in the Animated Ilya of Murom and Nightingale the Robber (2007)," by Anastasjia Ropa, Edgar Rops, and Maria Inês Bolinhas

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan, Laurel
Laurel Ryan is Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She specializes in nineteenth-century Canadian medievalisms.

Czarnowus, Anna
Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is the co-editor of volumes on national medievalisms.