Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century

New York: William Morrow & Company [1951], 1991. 477 pages; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The quest for the Middle Ages. Between Rome and Renaissance; Discovery and learning; The Medieval mind; Recognitions and formulations. LAW AND SOCIETY: Frederic William Maitland. A death in the Canary Islands; Medievalism and modernism; Present at the creation; The reach of the common law. THE NAZI TWINS: Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz. Old Heidelberg; In Hitler's shadow; The imperial destiny; The lost world of German idealism. The French Jews: Louis Halphen and Marc Bloch. Flight and return; The Mandarins; Lords and peasants; The long duration. THE FORMALISTS: Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Robert Curtius. Formalism as interpretation and ideology; The rise of iconology; Fortune's child; Preserving western civilization. THE OXFORD FANTASIES: Clive Staples Lewis, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and Frederic Maurice Powicke. Save the beloved land; The medieval imagination; The long journey; A Proustian dreamworld. AMERICAN PIE: Charles Homer Haskins and Joseph Reese Strayer. The Wilsonians; The contours of medieval government; The northern supermen; Cold War liberalism and the medieval state. AFTER THE FALL: Michael David Knowles and Etienne Henry Gilson. Absoluting the Middle Ages; The rebellious monk; The nemesis of sanctity; The Christian philosopher. THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: Richard William Southern. The claim of the ideal; Looking for Camelot; "For he is an Englishmen"; The knights of the southern round table. OUTRIDERS: Johan Huizinga, Eileen Edna Power, Michael Moissey Postan, Carl Erdmann, and Theodor Ernst Mommsen. Gorging out; Postimpressionism; The partnership; Saying no and believing yes. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.