The Spectator, May 12th, 2007
MEDIEVALISM by Michael Alexander Yale, £25, pp. 306, ISBN 9780300110616 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
Winston Churchill once famously declared, 'this pudding has no theme'. Michael Alexander's book, subtitled 'The Middle Ages in Modern England' -- a period which in his view stretches from well before the Industrial Revolution virtually to contemporary culture -- has far too many. His contention is that medievalism sprang from two main impulses: the rise of antiquarianism in the second half of the 18th century, studying the material evidence of the Middle Ages, on one hand, and t...
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