Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	119
Title	Revival and Renewal: New Uses for Old Stories and Patterns in the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
Date/Time	Monday 6 July 2015: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands & Islands
Organiser	Victoria Whitworth, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University
Moderator/Chair	Farah Mendlesohn, Department of English & Media, Anglia Ruskin University
Paper 119-a	'It is not in my book of the Morte d'Arthur': Florence Converse's Sir Launcelot (Language: English) Paul Hardwick, Department of English, Leeds Trinity University Index Terms: Language and Literature - Other; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 119-b	Arthur on the Cheap: Street Literature and the 19th-Century Arthurian Revival (Language: English) Kate Lister, Department of English, Leeds Trinity University Index Terms: Language and Literature - Other; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Paper 119-c	Death, Memory, and George Bain's Commemorative Renewing of the Book of Kells (Language: English) Victoria Whitworth, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University Index Terms: Art History - Decorative Arts; Art History - Sculpture; Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	These three papers address visual and narrative revivals and renewals of medieval themes in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, focussing on their reinvention for a mass audience and the motives of the writers and craftspeople responsible. Chapbooks reframed Arthurian narratives in rich ways for a much wider audience; Florence Converse rewrote Malory for a Sunday School readership, articulating political discontents; and the pioneering Celtic revival artist George Bain combined contemporary aesthetics with Insular art to articulate his philosophy of reinvention and renewal.