A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

Introduction: Towards a Subaltern Medieval Unconscious - David Matthews and Michael Sanders
Catholicism and Constitutionalism in William Cobbett's English and Irish Medievalism - Matthew Roberts
Resisting Medievalism: The 'Mediaeval Mania' and the Working-Class Press - David Matthews
How Radical was Rienzi? The Nineteenth-Century Representation of the Roman Revolutionary Republican in the British Cultural Imagination - Rosemary A. Mitchell
Chartism and Medievalism: Retrospective Radicalism in the English Nineteenth Century - Stephen Knight
Making Sense of Chartism's Multiple Medievalisms - Michael Sanders
Rousing 'the Spirit of Wat Tyler': Chartist Newspaper Portrayals of the Rebel Leader - Stephen Basdeo
The Cause of Liberty: Ford Madox Brown, Augustus Welby Pugin and Victorian Medievalism - Colin Trodd
Serfs, Saints and Comrades: Working-Class Medievalism and the Narratives of Victorian Socialism - Ingrid Hanson
Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives, and the Commune of Saints - Stuart McWilliams
Finding the Present in the Past: Suffrage Medievalism in the Pages of Votes for Women - Carolyn P Collette