The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of \u201cold Europe\u201d and \u201ctradition\u201d to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the \u201cmedieval\u201d is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations \u2013 the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation \u2013 are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Professor Wollenberg teaches at the University of Tampa. <\/p>\n
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