 | Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Art & Visual Culture; History; Visual Arts; Philosophy; History of Art; Visual Culture; History of Art & Design; European History; Medieval History 400-1500; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; 19th Century Philosophy; 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-siècle 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. |
