Medievalist Comics and the American Century is successful as an elaborated reception study of a selection of comics published in America from the late 1930s until more recent times (2007).
But the book is more likely to be of value to the textual theorist than the
medievalist.
Tolkien's work brings enjoyment and rewards study, but we should not try to claim that Tolkien is as great as Chaucer, deserving more scholarly sessions at a
medievalists' conference than The Canterbury Tales or Beowulf.
Most
medievalists, though recognizing Gerbert's many strengths, would disagree strongly, noting how much science and learning continued to be valued throughout the Middle Ages.
Scholars devoting their work to the Middle Ages have had to make some noise of late to remind modernists (and particularly theorists) that
medievalists have been part of the conversation about modernity for a long time--as long as it has been going on, in fact.
Astonishingly (for a
medievalist) he downplays the significance of everything that singles out the medieval as different from the modern.
To the
medievalist, Gaunt's book offers powerful rereadings of texts fundamental to the courtly tradition, and a wonderfully subtle exploration of the politics and poetics of gender.
The central thesis of Erin Labbie's Lacan's Medievalism is that Lacan can rightfully be considered a
medievalist not only because he draws upon medieval texts in elaborating the concepts that constituted his return to Freud, but principally because his conceptualization of the unconscious situates him as a realist in the realism-nominalism debate that pervaded medieval philosophy.
Juliet, who lives in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge, is the distinguished biographer of the Bront's; a
medievalist and a scholar.