Essays in Volume: Morton W. Bloomfield—The southern slaveholders' view of the Middle Ages / Eugene D. Genovese—The interior or hidden life : medieval mysticism in nineteenth-century American evangelism / Theodore R. Hovet—A new dimension? North American scholars contribute their perspective / Susan Mosher Stuard—Personification and the idealization of the feminine / Marina Warner — "By Chaucer's boots" : some medieval strains in colonial American literature / Harrison Meserole—Medievalism and the mind of Emerson / Kathleen Verduin—King Arthur and Camelot, U.S.A. in the twentieth century / Valerie M. Lagorio—The medieval heritage in American religious architecture / Peter W. Williams—Ralph Adams Cram : dreamer of the medieval / Richard Guy Wilson—Louis Sullivan's use of the gothic : from skyscrapers to banks / Narciso G. Menocal—The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California and Chartres Cathedral, France : a television evangelist's adaptation of medieval ideology / Jane Welch Williams.