Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France (Routledge Revivals)

by ElizabethEmery (Author), Laura Morowitz (Author), Elizabeth Emery (Author), Laura Morowitz (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $127.60

  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-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 industrialisation.