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Medievalism is the study of and/or preference for the (European) Middle Ages.

It appears not to have become a "movement" before the early 20th century in the UK[1], 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[2]. 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.

Notes
  1. ^  see the "What is medievalism?" page from the Medievalism website
  2. ^  from Goethe's Werther on: this novel contained a host of references to the Middle Ages, as so many other works by this author.

Disambiguating

The meaning "medievalism" takes becomes clear from the context in which it is used: in an academic context, from the 20th century on it means "study of the Middle Ages"; in most other contexts it refers to a part-romantic love for the Middle Ages. For example:
  • If it is said that Erik Satie was involved in several medievalist sects before the end of the 19th century, it refers to the romantic undercurrent meaning of medievalism
  • If the University of Northern Iowa hosts a medievalism website, or if Heinrich Fichtenau is referred to as an eminent medievalist, it is the academic studies connotation of medievalism that is intended.

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Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times.
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twentieth century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. Some historians consider the era from about 1914 to 1991 to be the Short Twentieth Century.
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Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a
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The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt.
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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer and theorist of design now best remembered for his work on churches and on the Houses of Parliament.
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John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well.
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Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. It was preceded by Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Historians sometimes specifically define the 18th Century otherwise for the purposes of their work.
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ism was first used to form a noun of action from a verb. For example, baptize (or literally derived from "to dip") becomes "baptism". It is taken from the Greek suffix -ismos, Latin -ismus, and Old French -isme, that likewise forms abstract nouns from verbal stems.
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Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.

The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Born: July 28 1749(1749--)
Free City of Frankfurt
Died: March 22 1832 (aged 84)
Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Occupation: Polymath
Nationality: German
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Original title Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Country Wetzlar
Language German
Genre(s) Epistolary novel
Publisher
Publication date 1774
ISBN NA
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Alfred Éric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer, pianist, and writer.

Dating from his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie, as he said he preferred it.
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University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, was founded in 1876, as the Iowa State Normal School. It has colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a graduate school.
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Heinrich von Fichtenau (December 10, 1912— June 15, 2000) was an Austrian medievalist best known for his studies of medieval diplomatics, social and intellectual history.
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Middle Ages in history is an overview of how previous periods have both romanticised and disparaged the Middle Ages. After the period came to an end with the Renaissance, subsequent cultural movements such as the Enlightenment and Romantics created images of the Middle Ages that
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Neo-medievalism (or neomedievalism) is a neologism that was first popularized by Italian medievalist Umberto Eco in his 1973 essay "Dreaming in the Middle Ages"[1].
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Many Centres / Centers for Medieval Studies exist, usually as part of a university or other research and teaching facility.

Some notable ones are:
  • The Centre for Medieval Studies, Bergen at the University of Bergen ( Official site )

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Regular academic conferences in medieval studies:
  • International Congress on Medieval Studies, annual conference (Kalamazoo MI, U.S.)
  • International Medieval Congress, annual conference (Leeds, UK)

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