FORUM: Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

Nostalgia and medievalism around the world

edited by Donna Trembinski and Benjamin Bryce

Five historians give us their take on the pervasive presence of nostalgia and medievalism in a global context. From Europe, to China, to Latin America, to Egypt, to the United States and Canada.

DONNA TREMBINSKI & BENJAMIN BRYCE, Medievalism and Nostalgia for the Past in a Global Perspective

DONNA TREMBINSKI, The Modern University as a Site of Medievalist Nostalgia

SHOUFU YIN, The Pseudo-Recognition of Women Warriors in Imperial China and Contemporary Media

JULIE GIBBINGS, Medievalism in Latin America 

ROBERT ZECKER, Grandma Stole the American Dream: Immigrants, Nostalgia, and the Myth of a Pure America

SARA ANN KNUTSON, Excavating the Nostalgia of Archaeology in Moon Knight