Concentrating on Europe this volume's sixteen essays discuss different forms of medievalism in Germany France Italy Spain and Serbia. Medievalism the whole spectrum of post-medieval response to the middle ages is now accepted as a vital key to the understanding of Western culture and society from 1500 to the present pervading every aspect of our time from the popular and artistic to the scholarly. Studies in Medievalism now published annually is the one series to provide a regular forum for discussion of medievalism. This volume is devoted to medievalism in Europe excludingEngland (the subject of Volume IV1992). Contributors from Europe and America consider medievalism in Germany Italy France Spain and Serbia over a wide range of topics from eighteenth-century French politics and nineteenth-century German nationalism to contemporary Italian film. Language: English