Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-De-Siècle France

By Laura Morowitz and Elizabeth Emery

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-si cle 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138321214
• ISBN13: 9781138321212
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"