'In their project to legitimize affect in medieval studies, Prendergast and Trigg examine the dialectic between the medieval past and subsequent representations of that past. Their considerations weave a densely learned tapestry.'
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
'In this deceptively concise book, Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg offer thoughtful commentary on complex issues involving academic and extra-academic engagement with the medieval past.'
Speculum
Thomas A. Prendergast is Professor of English at the College of Wooster
Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne
Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice
1 The space of time and the medievalist imaginary
2 Wonderful things
3 Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages
4 Loving the past
5 Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction
Bibliography
Index