Thinking of the Medieval

Coedited by Benjamin A. Saltzman, 'Thinking of the Medieval: Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages' gathers scholarship examining the ways mid-20th-century thinkers and intellectual movements interpreted and mobilized medieval history and culture.

The volume highlights interdisciplinary engagements—in literature, history, and theory—showing how medievalism informed broader intellectual currents.

Contributors analyze how the Middle Ages served as a conceptual resource for ideologies, aesthetics, and academic debates in the midcentury period.

The book illuminates the continuing influence of medieval studies on modern thought and the reciprocal shaping of medieval scholarship by contemporary concerns.