Introduction: Directions of thought: the Middle Ages at the midcentury / R. D. Perry and Benjamin A. Saltzman
Politics. Outside history: Fanon's negative Manicheism / D. Vance Smith
"The noblest blood God ever made": W. E. B. Du Bois's medievalism in the contexts of the world wars / Cord J. Whitaker
Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of California regents / Nancy van Deusen
Hannah Arendt's Middle Ages for the left / R. D. Perry
Arts. Curtius and Jung: commonplaces, archetypes, and literature's collective unconscious / Emily V. Thornbury
Old English at the midcentury: poetry, scholarship and fiction in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s / Clare A. Lees
Erwin Panofsky's Neo-Kantian Humanism and the purported relation between Gothic architecture and scholasticism / C. Oliver O'Donnell
"Are women human?": authority, gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. Sayers's scholarship / Helen Brookman
Epochs. Periodization trouble: Auerbach, Huizinga, and the question of medieval realism / Jane O. Newman
Medieval mysticism and the making of Simone Weil / Anna Kelner
Hermeneutics and the medieval horizon: Zumthor, Jauss, Barthes, and Gadamer / Benjamin A. Saltzman
Afterword / Martin Jay.