<i>Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood</i>. Ed. by M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus
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Abstract
Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood. Ed. by M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer (Medievalism, 17), 2020. 218 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978–1–84384–547–8. What might the Middle Ages as a temporal and historiographical construct have to do with Canadian art and identity? We might say that the ‘Middle Ages’ as a period was invented by Renaissance humanists in the sixteenth century to define a period between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, and that as European settlement in Canada was non-existent in the period that we think of as the Middle Ages, it can have no place in a modern nation. But against this are stark realities: first, Canada – and Newfoundland in particular – did have a European settlement at L’Anse Aux Meadows populated by Scandinavian traders and explorers during the high Middle Ages. Second, when we look at it again, the main productions of the European settlement in Canada were deeply imbued with the Middle Ages as a cultural ideal. Whether in the classic examples of the Gothic Houses of Parliament, the countless Gothic and Romanesque Revival churches that cover the Canadian landscape and that imbue Canada’s universities with the air of European pedigree, in legal codes which include Magna Carta (1215), or even in placenames which remap a medieval British or French geography onto an unruly country, the Middle Ages is a dominant myth of Canada. The Middle Ages could offer Canadians of European descent a sense of continuity with European tradition. But the Middle Ages also potentially offered a utopian vision of the past in the present: largely imported to Canada after major ruptures in Europe that destroyed much of its medieval art and architecture (in France, the Revolution of 1789 or in England, the Dissolution of the Monasteries of c. 1540), the Middle Ages was both a return to the past and a new beginning, a way to reimagine and even correct a lost ideal on virgin soil.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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