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Jan 04, 2025
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AREL 809 - Medievalist Visions of the Nineteenth Century3 credits
A comprehensive understanding of the 19th century must account for its enduring fascination with the Middle Ages. In large part, the cult of the medieval was a reaction against the ascendancy of industrialism and the newly empowered middle classes. As such, medievalism’s influence extended into the realms of religion, art, architecture, novels, poetry, prose, and politics. Students may survey the various guises of 19th-century medievalism and explore the connections between them in an interdisciplinary manner. Through the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the religiously motivated architecture of Augustus Welby Pugin, the fantasies of William Morris, the evocative art of the pre-Raphaelites and more, a vast array of figures offered their medievalist visions as they sought to influence the course of the 19th century.
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