Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Womens Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures.
Revising the histories of medievalismthe processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural endsis critical to the fields turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Womens Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures. These medievalisms create temporal dialogue between the past and the present to restore the voices of women who have been overlooked in medieval studies and medievalism studies. The books contemporary focus will appeal both to students and medieval studies scholars who seek to understand the fields present value amid the backlash of patriarchal, white supremacist power.
