Medievalists.net » Sir Walter Scott http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Beginning of Medieval Historical Fiction: Ten Novels from the 19th century http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/04/beginning-medieval-historical-fiction-ten-novels-19th-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/04/beginning-medieval-historical-fiction-ten-novels-19th-century/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:11:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56607 Historical fiction was just beginning as literary genre in the 19th century, but soon authors found success in writing about stories set in the Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/04/beginning-medieval-historical-fiction-ten-novels-19th-century/feed/ 0 From Scott to Rispart, from Ivanhoe to The York Massacre of the Jews Rewriting and translating historical “fact” into fiction in the historical novel http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/23/from-scott-to-rispart-from-ivanhoe-to-the-york-massacre-of-the-jews-rewriting-and-translating-historical-fact-into-fiction-in-the-historical-novel/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/23/from-scott-to-rispart-from-ivanhoe-to-the-york-massacre-of-the-jews-rewriting-and-translating-historical-fact-into-fiction-in-the-historical-novel/#comments Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:39:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45143 From Scott to Rispart, from Ivanhoe to The York Massacre of the Jews Rewriting and translating historical “fact” into fiction in the historical novel Nitsa Ben-Ari Palimpsestes, 24 (2011) Abstract Historical “data” concerns not only facts, as we all know, but memory (individual as well as collective), language, cultural heritage (“real” or invented). In his […]

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