Decolonizing medieval Mexico / José Rabasa -- An enchanted mirror for the capitalist self : the Germania in British India / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- "Most gentle indeed, but most virile" : the medievalist pacifism of George Arnold Wood / Louise D'Arcens -- Response: Historicism and its supplements : a note on a predicament shared by medieval and postcolonial studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- "Reconquista" and the "three religion Spain" in Latin American thought / Hernán G.H. Taboada -- Medievalism, colonialism, orientalism : Japan's modern identity in Natsume Soseki's Maboroshi no tate and kairo-ko / Haruko Momma -- Crossing history, dis-orienting the Orient : Amin Maalouf's uses of the "medieval" / Hamid Bahri and Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Response: Working through medievalisms / Kathleen Davis

Andrés Bello and the Poem of the Cid : Latin America, occidentalism, and the foundations of Spain's "national philology" / Nadia Altschul -- Postcolonial gothic : the medievalism of America's "national" cathedrals / Elizabeth Emery -- An American in Paris : Charles Homer Haskins at the Paris Peace Conference / Heather Blurton -- Response: Medievalism and the making of nations / Michelle R. Warren -- African medievalisms : caste as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma's Suns of independence and Monnew / Sylvie Kandé -- A clash of medieval cultures : Amerindians and conquistadors in the thought of Wilson Harris / Kofi Campbell -- Medieval studies and the voice of conscience in twentieth-century South Africa / Victor Houliston -- Response: Africa and the signs of medievalism / Simon Gikandi.