The guilt of the past: medievalist closures and disclosures
Stuart McWilliams
AbstractThis article reflects playfully on poetic and periodic conceptions of the Middle Ages, with a view to establishing connections (direct as well analogical) between inscription claustrality formal structure verse. As means defamiliarising subjects at hand, notion authenticity is deployed in uncommon guises; particular, authentic framed ‘the culpable’ (that is, an agent regarded identical perpetrator past deeds). This legal or juridical sense word (which encoded its etymology) provides frame for considering various narrative techniques by which Ages have been put ‘on trial’ found be selfsame – otherwise.
Rethinking History