Two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages. These are the two civilizations that have preceded us, the two elements of which ours is composed. All political as well as religious questions reduce themselves practically to this. This is the great dualism that runs through our society. (Lord Acton)

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

[…] already the subject goes beyond any one person's competence even to survey. “Medievalism” is a very broad field, much less capable of definition than, for instance, “modernism.” One is tempted to say that a better term would be “medievalisms [plural],” and that a natural academic approach is to single out just one of them. But at the same time one has to remember that though its many manifestations may develop separately, they are all capable at any point of interacting, and have always done so.