| Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-De-Siècle France Contributor(s): Emery, Elizabeth (Author), Morowitz, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138321206 ISBN-13: 9781138321205 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France |
| Series: Routledge Revivals |
| Physical Information: 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-si cle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal that the medieval past held for a society undergoing the rapid changes of industrialisation. |