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that such discussions represent the full scope of their inquiries. This essay will
treat the career of Jacques Maritain as an example of the challenges facing those
interested in developing “medievalism” as sub-specialty in both medieval studies
and cultural studies.
Since 1976, the year of the first general conference on medievalism, there
have been a number of important contributions to the literature of medievalism.
Among these. Studies in Medievalism, edited by Leslie J. Workman, has set the
standard— encouraging medievalism as a study of represent