"God Speed!" by Edmund Blair Leighton: 19th century Medievalism

It appears not to have become a "movement" before the early 20th century in the UK,^[2] although it has been argued that a languish for the Middle Ages was one of the most determining factors in the kick-off of the Romantic movement in the early 19th century: a love for ivy-covered ruins, the Pre-Raphaelite movement, architects like Augustus Pugin and authors like John Ruskin proclaiming the Gothic style the only "true" style for Christian buildings, and more, appear all symbols for this earlier flavour of medievalism.

On the European continent similar medievalist tendencies appeared from the late 18th century, likewise furnishing building blocks for what later would become known as the Romantic movement.^[3] In this sense "medievalism" is not to be characterised as a movement in the proper sense, but as an underlying current, one of the many "-isms" that flowed together in making the culture of the 19th century what it was.

From the 20th century Medievalism was also used as the umbrella name for academic studies of the Middle Ages, however these days Medieval Studies is more commonly used for the academic field and Medievalism for the love and/or influence of medieval culture and the Middle Ages on works of literature or art.

Medievalist institutions

• Centre for Medieval Studies
• Conferences in Medieval Studies
• Digital Medievalist

External links

• Medieval Studies links from Voice of the Shuttle
• Medieval Studies projects from British Academy
• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• The Mysticism of Catherine of Siena

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