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Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siecle France

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From pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emil Zola, Consuming the Past explores the complexity of the fin-de-siecle 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 industrialization.

Language: English

Pages: 295

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Release: December 31, 2003

ISBN: 0754603199

ISBN 13: 9780754603191

Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siecle France

4/5 ( ratings)

From pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emil Zola, Consuming the Past explores the complexity of the fin-de-siecle 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 industrialization.

Language: English

Pages: 295

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Release: December 31, 2003

ISBN: 0754603199

ISBN 13: 9780754603191

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