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Abstract

This chapter argues that medievalism in Australian culture needs to be understood through a postcolonial theory alert to a new historicist reading of cultural artefacts while nuanced by psychoanalysis. The focus of such a reading is the work of memory. 'Medievalism' is taken to mean the re-use of the medieval past and thus includes cultural, economic and academic practices. The artefacts read are dispersed across nineteenth-century records of property sale, a stone tower and a Gothic building, documents of twenthieth-century debate around the value of education and a range of memoirs.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Mead, J
Keywords:	medievalism, memory, culture, Australia, national identity
Publisher:	Brepols Publishers
Additional Information:	This chapter was republished in the same volume by Melbourne University Publishing in 2006.
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