ICMS 2027 Deadline Extended to September 22nd, 2026. Still accepting abstracts for the session "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Medievalisms in British Literature"

For this session, proposals might explore the factors, both nostalgic and cynical, in shaping nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature about the Middle Ages. What historical, social, and intellectual views shaped British nineteenth- and twentieth century approaches to the Middle Ages? How are nineteenth-century British medievalisms in particular both a check against and validation of progress? In what ways were these views limited or biased based on what the Victorians, for example, knew and believed and did not know, particularly when compared to advances in historical, psychological, and political knowledge in the next centuries?

How have nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalisms shaped adaptation and scholarship since? Along these lines, proposals might
acknowledge the broader concept of medievalism(s), which not only invokes the cultural (e.g., gender, race, social class) and global dimensions of the Middle Ages but also includes traditional historical and philological critical approaches as well as creative, interpretive approaches. How do writers, historians, artists, and others in the British nineteenth and twentieth centuries both research and uncover the Middle Ages as well as creatively imagine and reimagine it.

Submit abstracts to: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8425