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Don't Be Snobs, Medievalists, Richard Utz Aug 2015

Don't Be Snobs, Medievalists, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Medievalism And The Subject Of Religion, Richard Utz Dec 2014

Medievalism And The Subject Of Religion, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Assesses the reasons for the relative disregard of scholarly work on studying the continuity of religious thought and faith by scholarship in Medievalism Studies over the last 25 years. Postulates that medievalism scholars have an ethical obligation to investigate and historicize religion and theology, at least in its temporal manifestations.


Review Of Die Gegenwart Des Mittelalters, By Otto Gerhard Oexle, Medievally Speaking (2015)., Richard Utz Dec 2014

Review Of Die Gegenwart Des Mittelalters, By Otto Gerhard Oexle, Medievally Speaking (2015)., Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Review Of: Renaissance Retrospections: Tudor Views Of The Middle Ages, Ed. Sarah A. Kelen, Journal Of English And Germanic Philology 114.2 (2015): 303-5., Richard Utz Dec 2014

Review Of: Renaissance Retrospections: Tudor Views Of The Middle Ages, Ed. Sarah A. Kelen, Journal Of English And Germanic Philology 114.2 (2015): 303-5., Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Professor Richard Utz's Medievalism, Richard Utz Mar 2014

Professor Richard Utz's Medievalism, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


The Year's Work In Medievalism 29 (2014), Richard Utz, E L. Risden, Gale Sigal Dec 2013

The Year's Work In Medievalism 29 (2014), Richard Utz, E L. Risden, Gale Sigal

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Rev. Of On The Trail Of King Arthur: A Journey Into Dark Age Scotland, By Robin Crichton, Arthuriana 24.1 (2014): 141-3., Richard Utz Dec 2013

Rev. Of On The Trail Of King Arthur: A Journey Into Dark Age Scotland, By Robin Crichton, Arthuriana 24.1 (2014): 141-3., Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Can We Talk About Religion, Please? Medievalism’S Eschewal Of Religion, And Why It Matters, Richard Utz Dec 2013

Can We Talk About Religion, Please? Medievalism’S Eschewal Of Religion, And Why It Matters, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Medievalism Now, Special Issue (28 [2013]) Of The Year's Work In Medievalism, Richard Utz, E.L. Risden, Karl Fugelso Dec 2013

Medievalism Now, Special Issue (28 [2013]) Of The Year's Work In Medievalism, Richard Utz, E.L. Risden, Karl Fugelso

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Past, Present, And Neo, Richard Utz Dec 2013

Past, Present, And Neo, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

At first sight, few cities could have less of a link with the Middle Ages than Atlanta. Founded in 1837 to provide a train terminus to connect the port of Savannah with the Midwest, and about 3,500 miles and 400 years removed from Old Europe, Georgia’s capital seems to be quintessentially modern. Nevertheless, an alert first time visitor might notice dozens of medieval signposts: At the airport’s baggage claim, a colorful screen display invites her to be “swept away to an age of bravery and honor” and partake in “a feast of the eyes and appetite with all the splendor …


The Good Corporation? Google's Medievalism And Why It Matters, Richard Utz Jan 2013

The Good Corporation? Google's Medievalism And Why It Matters, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

This essay investigates Google's nostalgic romanticism as a form of medievalism and demonstrates how one of Google's products, the n-gram viewer, has changed what we know about the history of the term and mindset of "medievalism."


Them Philologists: Philological Practices And Their Discontents From Nietzsche To Cerquiglini, Richard Utz Jan 2012

Them Philologists: Philological Practices And Their Discontents From Nietzsche To Cerquiglini, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Bernhard Ten Brink And German English Studies In Lotharingia, Richard Utz Jan 2011

Bernhard Ten Brink And German English Studies In Lotharingia, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Negotiating Heritage: Observations On Semantic Concepts, Temporality, And The Centre Of The Study Of The Cultural Heritage Of Medieval Rituals, Richard Utz Jan 2011

Negotiating Heritage: Observations On Semantic Concepts, Temporality, And The Centre Of The Study Of The Cultural Heritage Of Medieval Rituals, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

This essay is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the "Fifth Conference on the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals" at University of Copenhagen on October 26, 2009. It seeks to review the interdisciplinary scholarship done by the Centre of the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, a project funded by the Danish National Research Foundation since 2001, from the perspective of Reinhart Kosellek's work on semantic concepts and temporality, focusing specifically on a recent Centre publication: Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages, edited by Mette B. Bruun and Stephanie Glaser as volume 4 in …


Cahier Calin: Makers Of The Middle Ages. Essays In Honor Of William Calin, Richard Utz, Elizabeth Emery Jan 2011

Cahier Calin: Makers Of The Middle Ages. Essays In Honor Of William Calin, Richard Utz, Elizabeth Emery

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 - April 22, 2009), Richard Utz Nov 2010

In Memoriam Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 - April 22, 2009), Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Eulogy on academic teacher, adviser, and mentor; founding dean of the College of Languages and Literatures at the University of Regensburg, Germany; and founder and honorary president of the German Medieval Academy (Mediävistenverband).


Pi(O)Us Medievalism Vs. Catholic Modernism: The Case Of George Tyrell, Richard Utz Jan 2010

Pi(O)Us Medievalism Vs. Catholic Modernism: The Case Of George Tyrell, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Investigates the use of "medievalism" by George Tyrell in his book, Medievalism. A Reply to Cardinal Mercier (1908). Tyrell, who argues in favor of a modern(ist), intelligent, Catholic faith, sees the Church's reorientation toward the Middle Ages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a misdirected form of originalism, which he rejects as "medievalism."


Review Of: Elisabeth Vavra, Ed. Der Wald Im Mittelalter, Perspicuitas (2009), Richard Utz Jan 2009

Review Of: Elisabeth Vavra, Ed. Der Wald Im Mittelalter, Perspicuitas (2009), Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Osnabrück Declaration On The Potential Of European Philologies, Richard Utz Jan 2007

Osnabrück Declaration On The Potential Of European Philologies, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

English translation, by Richard Utz, of Christoph König's summary statement based on the 2006 conference, at the U of Osnabrück, on the potential of academic work in philology.


Medieval Philology And Nationalism: The British And German Editors Of Thomas Of Erceldoune, Richard Utz Jan 2006

Medieval Philology And Nationalism: The British And German Editors Of Thomas Of Erceldoune, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

The reception of the late fourteenth-century romance/lay/ballad Thomas of Erceldoune by romantic enthusiasts, antiquarians, modernist philologists, and twentieth-century medievalists reveals the dangerous indebtedness of a quasi-sciencific medieval philology to competing national paradigmatic constructions (German, English, Scottish) on the one hand and the ongoing foundational value of philological work for current medieval textual scholarship on the other. Thus, while debunking the disinterestedness claimed by modernist philology, the essay attests to the enduring success of philological editorial practice regarding this specific late medieval poem.


Otto Gründler: In Memoriam (1928-2004), Richard Utz Jan 2005

Otto Gründler: In Memoriam (1928-2004), Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Eulogy on Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University.


Medieval Nominalism And The Literary Questions: Selected Studies, Richard Utz, Terry Barakat Apr 2004

Medieval Nominalism And The Literary Questions: Selected Studies, Richard Utz, Terry Barakat

Richard Utz

Like few other topics in the academic study of medieval literature, the search for the possible parallels between philosophical and literary texts reveals the not always peaceful coexistence among the three basic approaches to the study of medieval literature and culture: While hard-core medieval philologists would not accept any claims for a “literary nominalism” unless direct textual dependence can be demonstrated, scholars in medieval studies and the comparative study of medieval literature have shown themselves more accepting of investigations which diagnose a certain nominalistic Zeitgeist, mentality, or milieu especially in late medieval culture; and scholars preferring presentist/postmodern approaches have wholeheartedly …


Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz Mar 2004

Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

Contains several additions to the “Annotated Bibliography” of German and Austrian Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948 published in Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002)


Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz Jan 2004

Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

The word "time," as defined by cultural critic Norbert Elias in his essay on the sociology of knowledge, is a human symbol "for a relation which a group of human beings, who possess the biological capability of memorization and synthesis, establishes among several events, one of which they standardize as the frame of reference or measuring rod for the others". Similarly, Aaron Gurevic underlines there there are no universal definitions of space and time ...


Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz Dec 2001

Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


‘Cleansing’ The Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius And His Medievalist Turn, Richard Utz Jan 1998

‘Cleansing’ The Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius And His Medievalist Turn, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


‘As Writ Myn Auctour Called Lollius’: Divine And Authorial Omnipotence In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Richard Utz Jan 1997

‘As Writ Myn Auctour Called Lollius’: Divine And Authorial Omnipotence In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.


Negotiating The Paradigm: Literary Nominalism And The Theory And Practice Of Re-Reading Late Medieval Texts, Richard Utz Dec 1994

Negotiating The Paradigm: Literary Nominalism And The Theory And Practice Of Re-Reading Late Medieval Texts, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.