Medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern England

Introduction

The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s

Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer into Scott : The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe

Dim religious lights : The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes'

'Residences for the poor' : the Pugin of Contrasts

Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman

'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume' : Malory into Tennyson

History, the revival and the PRB : Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions

History and legend : the subjects of poetry and painting

The working men and the common good : Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins

Among the lilies and the weeds : Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley

'I have seen

a white horse' : Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound

Modernist medievalism : Eliot, Pound, Jones

Twentieth-century Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill

Epilogue : 'riding through the glen.'

Introduction

The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s

Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer into Scott : The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe

Dim religious lights : The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes'

'Residences for the poor' : the Pugin of Contrasts

Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman

'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume' : Malory into Tennyson

History, the revival and the PRB : Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions

History and legend : the subjects of poetry and painting

The working men and the common good : Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins

Among the lilies and the weeds : Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley

'I have seen

a white horse' : Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound

Modernist medievalism : Eliot, Pound, Jones

Twentieth-century Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill

Epilogue : 'riding through the glen.'