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In academic usage, medievalism is the study of the Middle Ages, 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, architects like Augustus Pugin and authors like John Ruskin proclaiming the Gothic style the only "true" style for Christian buildings, 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, 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, architects like Augustus Pugin and authors like John Ruskin proclaiming the Gothic style the only "true" style for Christian buildings, 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 "-isms" 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 on works of literature or art.
Medievalist institutions
Medievalist learned societies
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