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In academic usage, medievalism is the study of the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
, also referred to as medieval studies. In popular usage, "medievalism" it may refer to a preference for Middle Ages. The intersection of the study of and the preference for has been termed "neomedievalism".

It appears not to have become a "movement" before the early 20th century in the UK, although it has been argued that a languish for the Middle Ages was one of the most determining factors in the kick-off of the Romantic movement in the early 19th century: a love for ivy-covered ruins, the Pre-Raphaelite movement
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of England Paintings, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, Thomas Woolner and William Holman Hunt....
, architects like Augustus Pugin and authors like John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
 proclaiming the Gothic style the only "true" style for Christian buildings
Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
, and more, appear all symbols for this earlier flavour of medievalism.

On the European continent similar medievalist tendencies appeared from the late 18th century, likewise furnishing building blocks for what later would become known as the Romantic movement.






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In academic usage, medievalism is the study of the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
, also referred to as medieval studies. In popular usage, "medievalism" it may refer to a preference for Middle Ages. The intersection of the study of and the preference for has been termed "neomedievalism".

It appears not to have become a "movement" before the early 20th century in the UK, although it has been argued that a languish for the Middle Ages was one of the most determining factors in the kick-off of the Romantic movement in the early 19th century: a love for ivy-covered ruins, the Pre-Raphaelite movement
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of England Paintings, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, Thomas Woolner and William Holman Hunt....
, architects like Augustus Pugin and authors like John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
 proclaiming the Gothic style the only "true" style for Christian buildings
Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
, and more, appear all symbols for this earlier flavour of medievalism.

On the European continent similar medievalist tendencies appeared from the late 18th century, likewise furnishing building blocks for what later would become known as the Romantic movement. In this sense "medievalism" is not to be characterised as a movement in the proper sense, but as an underlying current, one of the many "-ism
-ism

The Affix -ism denotes a distinctive system of beliefs, myth, doctrine or theory that guides a social movement, institution, Social class or group....
s" that flowed together in making the culture of the 19th century what it was.

From the 20th century Medievalism was also used as the umbrella name for academic studies of the Middle Ages, however these days Medieval Studies is more commonly used for the academic field and Medievalism for the love and/or influence of medieval culture and the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 on works of literature or art.

Medievalist institutions

  • Centre for Medieval Studies
    Centre for Medieval Studies

    Many Centres / Centers for Medieval Studies exist, usually as part of a university or other research and teaching facility.Some notable ones are:...
  • Conferences in Medieval Studies
    Conferences in Medieval Studies

    Regular academic conferences in medieval studies:* International Congress on Medieval Studies, annual conference * International Medieval Congress, annual conference ...
  • Digital Medievalist
    Digital Medievalist

    Digital Medievalist is an academic project and community-building organization for thosewho are interested in the use of computers and computational techniques in the academic field of medieval studies....


Medievalist learned societies

  • Canadian Society of Medievalists
    Canadian Society of Medievalists

    Canadian Society of Medievalists is a Canadian learned society of medievalists.It publishes an annual journal, Florilegium, which is "devoted to the ancient and medieval cultures of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East."...


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