Medievalism

And of course, nobody ever said that medievalism then—or electro-medievalism now—was either democratic or egalitarian.

Cf. Part Two, Chapter 14. * citation * Glaser, Stephanie, "The Gothic Cathedral and Medievalism," in: Falling into Medievalism, ed. Anne Lair and Richard Utz.

One thousand years later as the symbolism of the Dark ages and medievalism waned, a new movement arose to replace it: Romanticism.

Alexander rejects the idea that medievalism, a pervasive cultural movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was confined to the Victorian period and argues against the suspicion that it was by its nature escapist.

It elevated medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be from the medieval period.