Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates
about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern Europe.
This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas that
are crucial to understanding global medievalism but are, due to
language barriers, often inaccessible to the majority of Western
scholars and students.
The importance of Russian medievalism has been acknowledged, but
little analysed until now. _Medievalism in Finland and Russia _offers
a selection of chapters by Russian, Finnish and American scholars
covering historiography, presidential speeches, participatory online
discussions and the neo-pagan revival in Russia. Finland is currently
even more poorly understood than Russia in the discussions about
global medievalism. It is usually mentioned only as of the birthplace
of the Soldiers of Odin. The street patrol is, however, a marginal
phenomenon in Finnish medievalism as this volume demonstrates. Instead
of merely adopting the medievalist interpretation of the international
alt-right, even the right-wing populists in Finland refer more to the
nationalistic medievalist tradition, where crusades do not mark a
Western Christian victory over the Muslim East, but a Swedish
occupation of Finnish lands. In addition to presenting particular
cases of medievalism, the chapters here on Finland challenge and
diversify today's prevailing interpretation of shared online
medievalism of European and American right-wing populists.
This book reveals that while medievalisms in Finland and Russia share
many features with the contemporary Anglo-American medievalist
imaginations, they also display many original characteristics due to
particular political situations and indigenous medievalist traditions.
They have their own meta-medievalisms, cumulative core ideas and
interpretations about the medieval past that are thoroughly examined
here in English for the very first time.
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Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350232914
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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