Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xii
Chronology xv
Introduction xvii
1 The Advent of the Goths: The Medieval in the 1760s 1
2 Chivalry, Romances and Revival: Chaucer into Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel and Ivanhoe 23
3 Dim Religious Lights: The Lay, Christabel and 'The Eve of St Agnes' 47
4 'Residences for the Poor': The Pugin of Contrasts 60
5 Back to the Future in the 1840s Carlyle Ruskin Sybil Newman 76
6 'The Death of Arthur was the Favourite Volume': Malory into Tennyson 98
7 History, the Revival and the PRB: Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions 118
8 History and Legend: The subjects of poetry and painting 137
9 The Working Men and the Common Good Madox Brown Maurice Morris Hopkins 149
10 Among the Lilies and the Weeds Hopkins Whistler Burne-Jones Beardsley 173
11 'I Have Seen … A White Horse' Chesterton Yeats Ford Pound 188
12 Modernist Medievalism Eliot Pound Jones 203
13 Twentieth-century Christendom Waugh Auden Inklings Hill 221
Epilogue: 'Riding through the glen' 239
Notes 247
Bibliography 262
Index 266
