medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, in an attempt ... were built in the Gothic style. ref M. Alexander, Medievalism the Middle Ages in Modern England Yale ... in Popular Culture University Press of Kentucky, 2002 , p. 2. ref Neo medievalism Main Neo medievalism Neo medievalism or neomedievalism is a neologism that was first popularized by Italian medievalist ... and past inspiration s that medievalism and neomedievalism tend to be used interchangeably. ref J. Tolmie, Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine , Journal of Gender Studies , vol. 15, No. 2 July 2006, pp ... sca thesis d.htm Postmodern Medievalism , University of Tasmania , November 1994. ref and as political ... more details
Neo medievalism or neomedievalism is a neologism that was first popularized by Italian medievalist Umberto Eco in his 1986 essay Dreaming in the Middle Ages ref Umberto Eco , Dreaming the Middle Ages, in Travels in Hyperreality , transl. by W. Weaver, NY Harcourt Brace, 1986, 61 72. Umberto Eco said ..we are at present witnessing, both in Europe and America, a period of renewed interest in the Middle Ages, with a curious oscillation between fantastic neomedievalism and responsible philological examination.. ref . The term has no clear definition but has since been used by various writers such as medievalist medieval historians who see it as the intersection between popular fantasy and Middle Ages medieval history ref David Ketterer 2004 . http books.google.com books?id Xh5wFOn256wC&pg RA1 PA211&lpg RA1 PA211&dq 22neo medievalism 22&source web&ots Q0nAw3mTxu&sig 4sqtdAulyPgPJn6 sEyDsxWImLM PRA1 PA211,M1 Chapter 18 Fantasic Neomedievalism by Kim Selling, in http books.google.com books?id Xh5wFOn256wC Flashes of the Fantastic . ref as a term describing the post modern study of medieval history ref Cary John Lenehan. http www.tased.edu.au tasonline sca thesis d.htm Postmodern Medievalism , University of Tasmania , November 1994. ref and as political theory about modern international relations . ref name Kobrin Stephen J. Kobrin. http www management.wharton.upenn.edu kobrin Research hartrev2.pdf Back to the Future Neomedievalism and the Postmodern Digital World Economy 1997 . ref Culture The widespread interest in medieval themes in popular culture , especially computer games such as MMORPG s, film s and television , neo medieval music , and popular literature , has been called neomedieval. Critics have discussed why medieval themes continue to fascinate audiences in a modern ... no9 ses 02 deets.pdf Pulling Back from Neo Medievalism , a discussion of neo medievalism in relation ... of medievalism through a literary criticism lens Category Political theories Category Philosophical ... more details
New medievalism is a term used by Hedley Bull in The Anarchical Society to describe the erosion of state sovereignty in the contemporary globalised world. This has resulted in an international system which resembles the medieval one, where political authority was exercised by a range of non territorial and overlapping agents, such as religious bodies, principalities, empires and city states, instead of by a single political authority in the form of a state which has complete sovereignty over its territory. Bull argues that the contemporary international system is evolving into one with multiple and overlapping sources of power. Processes characterising this new medievalism include the increasing powers held by regional organisations such as the European Union , as well as the spread of sub national and devolved governments, such as those of Scotland and Catalonia . These challenge the exclusive authority of the state. Private military companies , multinational corporations and the resurgence of worldwide religious movements e.g. Political Islam similarly indicate a reduction in the role of the state and a decentralisation of power and authority. More recently, Anthony Clark Arend argues in his 1999 book, Legal Rules and International Society , that the international system is moving toward a neo medieval system. He claims that the trends that Bull noted in 1977 had become even more pronounced by the end of the Twentieth Century. Arend argues that the emergence of a neo medieval system would have profound implications for the creation and operation of international law. See also Westphalian sovereignty English school of international relations theory References Sutch, P and J Elias, International Relations The Basics , Routledge, New York, 2007, pp. 102 104 http www.30giorni.it us articolo.asp?id 5335 Towards a new Middle Ages? by Roberto Rotondo http www.oup.com us catalog general subject Law PublicInternationalLaw GeneralPublicInternationalLaw ?view usa&ci 9780195127119 ... more details
primary sources date October 2011 The International Society for the Study of Medievalism is an academic ... J. Workman 1927 2001 , who is recognized as the founder of the academic study of medievalism in the English speaking world. The society maintains a peer reviewed journal, Studies in Medievalism , an annual ... in Medievalism , and a review journal, Medievally Speaking edited by Richard Utz. ref cite web url http medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com title medievally speaking medievalism in review publisher medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com ... International Conferences on Medievalism at institutions of higher education world wide. ref cite web url http www.medievalism.net conferences.html title International Conference on Medievalism publisher International Society for the Study of Medievalism accessdate 2011 10 24 ref Studies in Medievalism Studies in Medievalism is an annual publication that, as noted on its title page, provides an interdisciplinary ... in Medievalism Defining Neomedievalism s , XIX, 2010 ref The series was founded in 1979 by Leslie ... title History publisher International Society for the Study of Medievalism accessdate 2011 10 24 ref ... Medievalism s , Defining Neomedievalism s , and Medievalism and the Corporation. But the series is otherwise open to any paper that addresses medievalism in at least 6,000 words, and recent topics ... in Dickens s A Child s History of England and The Battle of Life , Studies in Medievalism Defining Medievalism ... of Medievalist Music in Peter Jackson s Lord of the Rings Films, Studies in Medievalism Defining Medievalism s II , XVIII, ed. Karl Fugelso, 2010 ref Studies in Medievalism does not publish reviews ... in the journal s online review arm, Medievally Speaking . The Year s Work in Medievalism The journal The Year s Work in Medievalism is based on the Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, though it also publishes bibliographies, book reviews, and announcements of conferences ... Category History organizations Category History journals DEFAULTSORT Study of Medievalism ... more details
Neo medieval Greek neo new medieval refers to a modern revival of Medieval culture. Neo medieval music Medieval architecture Neo medievalism Disambig ... more details
scholar and founder of academic medievalism . Biography Workman received his education at the Russell ... colleagues of the value of the paradigm of medievalism studies. He began to organize the first conference ... Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan , founded the leading academic journal, Studies in Medievalism , in 1979, and started the annual International Conference on Medievalism in 1986. In 1998, colleagues and students recognized his extraordinary achievements with a Festschrift , Medievalism in the Modern World Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman . Studies in Medievalism Workman founded Studies in Medievalism SiM in 1979 as the only academic journal dedicated entirely to the study of post medieval ... s Work in Medievalism Workman originally conceived of The Year s Work in Medievalism YWIM as a publishing venue not only for the Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, but also ... Conference on Medievalism ICOM known as the General Conference on Medievalism until 1993 with two ... Publications Medievalism . In The Arthurian Encyclopedia , ed. Norris J. Lacy. New York Garland, 1985. Pp. 387 91. Medievalism and Romanticism . In Poetica . 39 40 1994 , 1 34. Studies in Medievalism ... and Tom Shippey eds. Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman . Turnhout Brepols, 1998. Pp. 451 52. Richard Utz Medievalism in the Making A Bibliography of Leslie J. Workman, in The Year s Work in Medievalism 15 2001 , 127 31. Richard Utz Medievalism, in Robert Bjork ed. Oxford ... Utz Coming to Terms with Medievalism Toward a Conceptual History. European Journal of English Studies 15.2 2011 101 13. Kathleen Verduin The Founding and the Founder Medievalism and the Legacy of Leslie J. Workman, Studies in Medievalism 17 2009 . Kathleen Verduin Remembering Leslie J. Workman 1927 2001 , in Anne Lair and Richard Utz eds. Falling into Medievalism http www.uni.edu universitas ... utz medievalism founder.html short biography http www.medievalism.net sim.html Studies in Medievalism ... more details
Transgovernmentalism is a theory of global governance . It accepts the continued existence of nation states but states that government functions can be delegated to intergovernmental bodies. ref McGrew, Andrew, Governing globalization power, authority and global governance, p 245 ref See also Liberal institutionalism New Medievalism References references polisci stub Category International relations theory ... more details
Representations of the Middle Ages are frequently attested in various media of modern culture, from literature, drama and film to comics, reenactment and videogames. The following is meant to provide an overview of the various articles relevant for this topic on Wikipedia. See also General Historical reenactment Medievalism and Neo medievalism Middle Ages in film Early Middle Ages King Arthur in various media Lady Godiva in popular culture Irish mythology in popular culture Welsh mythology in popular culture Vikings In popular culture Vikings in popular culture Viking revival Norse mythology in popular culture Tyrfing in popular culture High Middle Ages Knights Templar and popular culture Robin Hood in popular culture List of films and television series featuring Robin Hood Assassins in popular culture Late Middle Ages Knight errant Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc Islamic Golden Age Scheherazade in popular culture One Thousand and One Nights The Nights in world culture One Thousand and One Nights in world culture References reflist Category Middle Ages in popular culture ... more details
s Medievalism Studies, ref de Leslie J. Workman movement ref serving on the advisory board of Studies in Medievalism ref http www.medievalism.net sim.html ref and publishing on the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times. ref William Calin, Leslie Workman A Speech of Thanks, in Medievalism ... Stage Stephen Phillips s Paolo and Francesca , in Medievalism in the Modern World , pp. 255 61 Ernst Robert Curtius The Achievement of a Humanist, Studies in Medievalism 9 1997 , 218 27 and Postcolonialism and Medievalism How French Regional Cultures Literatures Reshape Their Past and Present, The Year s Work in Medievalism 25 2010 , 23 32. ref In 2011, on the occasion of his 75th ... Calin , ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery Kalamazoo, MI Studies in Medievalism, 2011 . ref ... more details
Orphan date January 2011 Hermiene Frederica Ulrich 1885 1956 was one of the first female professors in English Studies in Australia . She played a central role in shaping the teaching and curriculum at the University of Queensland . Ulrich s biography presents the case of a scholar in early English literature whose foundational contribution to the field has remained undocumented because she focused on the area of pedagogy. Her record as the first person, male or female, to be employed to teach English at the University of Queensland and as a successful teacher and deviser of a curriculum, has been obscured by those historians of the discipline who measure academic significance or eminence exclusively in terms of published scholarship. However, her impact on an entire generation of younger scholars is visible from curriculum and examination records, lecture scripts from the Queensland branch of the Worker s Educational Association , her participation on the Brisbane public speaking circuit, and entries in journals. ref Louise D Arcens, She ensample was by good techynge Hermiene Ulrich and Chaucer under Capricorn, in http web.fu berlin.de phin beiheft4 b4i.htm Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer , ed. Richard Utz and Peter Schneck, Philologie im Netz Supplement 4, 2009 , pp. 21 40 and Louise D Arcens, Australian Medieval Studies, in Studies in Medievalism X. Medievalism and the Academy II. Cultural Studies. Cambridge D.S. Brewer, 1 40. ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ulrich, Hermiene ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1885 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1956 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ulrich, Hermiene Category 1885 births Category 1956 deaths Category Australian academics Category Chaucer scholars ... more details
Derek Pearsall is a prominent Medievalism medievalist and Chaucerian who has written and published widely on Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer , William Langland Langland , John Gower Gower , manuscript studies, and medieval history and culture. He is the Co director, Emeritus, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University . ref Aers, David ed . Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Cambridge Brewer, 2000. http books.google.co.uk books?id wgh IQeuqz4C&dq 22derek pearsall 22&source gbs navlinks s Google books ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pearsall, Derek ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pearsall, Derek Category English academics Category English historians Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people England academic bio stub ... more details
Infobox Book name The Anarchical Society image Image The Anarchical Society third edition cover.jpg 200px Cover to the third edition image caption Third edition cover author Hedley Bull illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series subject International relations publisher Columbia University Press release date 1977 media type Hardback pages 335 isbn 0 231 04132 2 dewey 341.2 19 congress JX1954 .B79 1977 oclc 2332174 preceded by followed by The Anarchical Society A Study of Order in World Politics is a 1977 book by Hedley Bull and a founding text of the so called English school of international relations theory English School of international relations theory . The title refers to the assumption of Anarchy in international relations anarchy in the international system posited primarily by Realism international relations realists and argues for the existence of an international society . The book also outlines Bull s theory of new medievalism . External links http www.garretwilson.com books anarchicalsociety.html Notes The Anarchical Society nonfiction book stub DEFAULTSORT Anarchical Society, The Category 1977 books Category Political science books Category Books about international relations Category International relations theory Category Political realism Category English School international relations Category Columbia University Press books cy The Anarchical Society fr The Anarchical Society ... more details
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Medievalism A Reply to Cardinal Mercier http www.archive.org details thechurchandthef00tyrruoft ... A Life of George Tyrrell . Oxford Clarendon Press, 1990. Richard Utz. Pi o us Medievalism vs. Catholic Modernism The Case Of George Tyrell. The Year s Work in Medievalism 25 2010 , 6 11. David F. Wells ... more details
italicstitle File A Laodicean.jpg thumb right 200px First edition title page A Laodicean is a novel by Thomas Hardy , published in 1881. Set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, the plot exhibits devices uncommon for Hardy, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs. Synopsis Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, who is the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of the family. Captain De Stancy represents a dream of medieval nobility to Paula. She is attracted to both men for their different virtues but William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections. He fakes the telegram and photograph to make it appear Somerset is leading a dissolute lifestyle. His subterfuge is discovered by Captain De Stancy s sister Charlotte who has befriended Paula. She decides to tell Paula the truth and Paula pursues Somerset to the continent where he has gone mistakenly believing Paula and the Captain to have been married. She finds him and they are reunited and marry. The castle burns down and Somerset proposes to build a modern house in its place. The last line has Paula summing up her dichotomy of mind between modernity and romantic medievalism, and thus the two men, also emphasising the title a Laodicean someone indifferent or half hearted I wish my castle wasn t burnt and I wish you were a De Stancy See also portal Novels Epistle to the Laodiceans External links Gutenberg no 3258 name A Laodicean Thomas Hardy DEFAULTSORT Laodicean, A Category 1881 novels Category Novels by Thomas Hardy Category English novels 19thC novel stub nl A Laodicean ... more details
Martin Grabmann 5 January 1875 9 January 1949 was a Germany German historian of theology and philosophy , Medievalism medievalist . He was ordained in 1898. He studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum Collegium Divi Thom de Urbe in Rome Italy , earning a Doctorate in Philosophy and a Doctorate in Theology 1900 1902 . He was made a professor of theology and philosophy in Catholic University of Eichst tt Eichst tt in 1906. He moved to the University of Vienna in 1913 and University of Munich in 1918. He was the first to work out the outlines of the ongoing development of thought in scholasticism and to see in Thomas Aquinas a response and development of thought rather than a single, coherently emerged and organic whole. Although Grabmann s works in German language German are numerous, only Thomas Aquinas 1928 is available in English language English . However, Grabmann s thought was instrumental in the whole modern understanding of scholasticism and the pivotal role of Aquinas. References Cross, F.L., Livingstone, E. A., eds., Martin Grabmann in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church , Oxford University Press, New York 1974, p. 585. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Grabmann, Martin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 5 January 1875 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 9 January 1949 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Grabmann, Martin Category 1875 births Category 1949 deaths Category German historians Category German theologians Category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Category People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Category University of Vienna faculty Category Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty Category Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas alumni de Martin Grabmann fr Martin Grabmann sv Martin Grabmann ... more details
File Michael Drayton00.jpg thumb center Title page of Poly Olbion The Poly Olbion is a topographical poem describing England and Wales . Written by Michael Drayton 1563 1631 and published in 1612, it was reprinted with a second part in 1622. Drayton had been working on the project since at least 1598. Content The Poly Olbion is divided into thirty songs, written in alexandrine couplets, consisting in total of almost 15,000 lines of verse. Drayton intended to compose a further part to cover Scotland , but no part of this work is known to have survived. Each song describes between one and three counties, describing their topography, tradition s and history histories . Copies were illustrated with map s of each county, drawn by William Hole , whereon places were depicted anthropomorphic ally. The first book was accompanied by historical and philological summaries written by John Selden . Because of its length and its author s conflicting goals the Poly Olbion was almost never read as a whole, but is an important source for the period nevertheless. Drayton strained to combine correct scientific information about Britain mostly contained in Selden s commentary with his desire to provide as many memorial anchors to the elusive ancient Britons, Druids, Bards, and King Arthur as possible. ref Richard Utz, Hic iacet Arthurus? Situating the Medieval King in Renaissance Memory, Studies in Medievalism 15 2006 , 26 40 There Are Places We Remember Situating the Medieval Past in Postmedieval Cultural Memories, in Transfiguration 6.2 2004 , 89 108. ref See also 1612 in poetry 1622 in poetry Bibliography William H. Moore, http artemis.austincollege.edu acad english wmoore posummary.html Poly Olbion Summary Oliver Elton, Michael Drayton a Critical Study, with a Bibliography References reflist External links http books.google.com books?id HGgLAAAAIAAJ Poly Olbion in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton , vol. 3 London, 1876 Category 1612 poems Category 1622 poems Category British poe ... more details
File Tuebingen brechtbau.jpg thumb Brechtbau in April 2005 The Faculty of Modern Languages lang de Neuphilologische Fakult t is one of fourteen Faculty division faculties at the University of T bingen . It is the largest faculty of the university with about 8,000 students. It is located in the Neuphilologikum in the Wilhelmstra e area of the town. Most staff and students refer to both faculty and building by the building s unofficial name, Brechtbau , named after the German author and playwright Bertolt Brecht . The building has its own lecture theatre s for use by the faculty s departments as well as being equipped with a significant library containing over 300,000 volumes. Computer pools and Wireless LAN wireless internet access allow students to conduct research online. Departments The Faculty of Modern Languages consists of the following schools and departments ref http www.uni tuebingen.de Neuphil Dekanat seminare.html Neuphilologische Fakult t Seminare Faculty of Modern Languages, University of T bingen. Retrieved on 11 November 2008. ref German studies German language and literature Linguistics Linguistik Neuere deutsche Literatur 16th century till today Medievalism Comparative literature Scandinavian studies Media studies Medienwissenschaft English studies English language and literature American studies Romance studies Romance languages and literatures Slavic studies Slavic languages and literatures General Rhetoric Linguistics Sprachwissenschaft General linguistics computer linguistics General and theoretical linguistics Theoretical computer linguistics Further reading Manfred Muckenhaupt Nicht nur ber Medien reden. Zur Konzeption des Aufbaustudiengangs Medienwissenschaft Medienpraxis an der Neuphilologischen Fakult t der Universit t T bingen . In Wissenschaft und Berufspraxis. Ed. Georg J ger and J rg Sch nert. Paderborn Sch ningh, 1997. ISBN 3 506 74151 9 p. 249 267 de icon See also Heidelberg University Faculty of Modern Languages References refli ... more details
Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the middle ages . Development The term medieval studies began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books like G. G. Coulton s Ten Medieval Studies 1906 , to emphasize a greater interdisciplinary approach to a historical subject. In American and European universities the term provided a coherent identity to centres composed of academics from a variety of disciplines including archaeology, art history, architecture, history, literature and linguistics. The Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the St. Michael s College of the University of Toronto became the first centre of this type in 1929 ref H. Damico, J. B. Zavadil, D. Fennema, and K. Lenz, Medieval Scholarship Philosophy and the arts biographical studies on the formation of a discipline Taylor & Francis, 1995 , p. 80. ref it is now the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies PIMS and is part of the University of Toronto . With university expansion in the late 1960s and early 1970s encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation, similar centres were established in England at University of Reading 1965 , at University of Leeds 1967 and the University of York 1968 , and in the United States at Fordham University 1971 . ref G. McMullan and D. Matthews, Reading the medieval in early modern England Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007 , p. 231. ref A more recent wave of foundations, perhaps helped by the rise of interest in things medieval associated with neo medievalism , include centres at the University of Bristol 1994 , the University of Sydney 1997 ref D. Metzger and L. J. Workman, Medievalism and the academy II cultural studies Boydell & Brewer, 2000 , p. 18. ref and Bangor University 2005 . ref G. McMullan and D. Matthews, Reading the medieval in early modern England Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007 , p. 231. ref Medieval studies is buoyed by a number of annual international con ... more details
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File Smolenskin.png 200px thumb Peretz Peter Smolenskin lang he 1842 1885 , was a Russia n Jew ish novelist who wrote in Hebrew . Peretz Smolenskin was born near Mogilev Russia . His family came from Smolensk . His older brother was seized by the Czar s army and never returned. His father, falsely accused of a crime, was a fugitive for over two years and died when Peretz was eleven. At the age of 12, Smolenskin left home to study at a yeshiva for five years. He began reading secular books and learning Russian under the influence of the Haskalah movement. He traveled through southern Russia and the Crimea, supporting himself by singing in choirs and preaching in synagogues. In 1862, he settled in Odessa where he studied music and languages. He worked there as a Hebrew teacher. In 1867, he published his first story. During his travels through Rumania, Germany and Bohemia, he acquired Turkish nationality. In Vienna he founded a Hebrew journal that became a literary platform for the Haskalah movement and the early Jewish nationalist movement. He was stricken with tuberculosis in 1883. His last novel, The Inheritance, was completed shortly before his death. ref http www.ithl.org.il author info.asp?id 259 Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature Peretz Smolenskin ref Smolenskin was a leader in the revolt of young Jews against medievalism and a proponent of Jewish nationalism. His Hebrew periodical, The Dawn Ha shahar , was highly influential in these spheres. Shortly before his death he became deeply interested in schemes for the colonization of Palestine , and was associated with Laurence Oliphant 1829 1888 Laurence Oliphant . Smolenskin was the first to dissociate Messianic ideals from theological concomitants. His six novels create a kaleidoscope of Jewish life in which he rejects the notion of the westernized Jew. ref http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 259083 Hebrew literature 61549 Romanticism?anchor ref260744 Hebrew literature Rom ... more details
Use British English date August 2011 Use dmy dates date August 2011 Lindsay Clarke born 1939, Halifax, West Yorkshire is a British novelist. He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King s College Cambridge . He worked in education for many years, in Africa, Americas America and the UK, before becoming a full time writer. He currently lives in Somerset with his wife, Phoebe Clare, who is a ceramic artist. Clarke lectures in creative writing at Cardiff University , and teaches writing workshops in London and Bath, Somerset Bath . Four radio plays were broadcast by BBC Radio 4, and a number of his articles and reviews have been published in Resurgence and The London Magazine. Lindsay has one daughter from his first marriage. His novel The Chymical Wedding , partly inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood , won the Whitbread Prize in 1989. ref Liliana Sikorska, Mapping the Green Man s Territory in Lindsay Clarke s The Chymical Wedding , in The Year s Work in Medievalism 15 2002 , ed. Jesse Swan and Richard Utz. ref Clarke s most recent novel is THE WATER THEATRE published in September 2010 by Alma Booka , of which a review by Antonia Senior in THE TIMES of 28 August said There is nothing small about this book. It is huge in scope, in energy, in heart...It is difficult to remember a recent book that is at once so beautiful and yet so thought provoking. Bibliography Sunday Whiteman 1987 , ISBN 0 224 02488 4 The Chymical Wedding 1989 , ISBN 0 224 02537 6 Alice s Masque 1994 , ISBN 0 224 03287 9 Essential Celtic Mythology 1997 , ISBN 1 85538 477 9 Lindsay Clarke s Traditional Celtic Stories 1999 , ISBN 0722539835 Reissue of Essential Celtic Mythology with new jacket, but unchanged text Parzival and the Stone from Heaven A Grail Romance Retold for Our Time 2001 , ISBN 0 00 710813 3 The War at Troy 2004 , ISBN 0 00 715026 1 The Return from Troy 2005 , ISBN 0 00 715027 X The Water Theatre 2010 , Faber,ISBN 978 1 84688 113 8 Poetry Stoker , a selection of vers ... more details
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