Karl Fugelso

Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies. Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies via six essays that directly address how the Middle Ages have been put in play with regard to Alice Munro's 1977 short story "The Beggar Maid"; David Lowery's 2021 film The Green Knight; medievalist archaisms in Japanese video games; runic play in Norse-themed digital games; medievalist managerialism in the 2020 video game Crusader Kings III; and neomedieval architectural praxis in the 2014 video game Stronghold: Crusader II. The approaches and conclusions of those essays are then tested in the second section's six essays as they examine "muscular medievalism" in George R. R. Martin's 1996 novel A Game of Thrones; the queering of the Arthurian romance pattern in the 2018-20 television show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; the interspecies embodiment of dis/ability in the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon; late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century nationalism in Irish reimaginings of the Fenian Cycle; post-bellum medievalism in poetry of the Confederacy; and the medievalist presentation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2020-21 Covid inoculation.

Medievalism in Play

"A sequel to its predecessor, this volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores definitions of the field. In essays by seven leading medievalists, it seeks to determine precisely how we should characterize the subjects of our study, their relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and their relevance to the Middle Ages, whose definition is itself a matter of debate." "The observations and conclusions of the essayists are tested in the volume's second section, which comprises eight articles on: the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years in our perception of the Middle Ages; medievalism in Gustave Dore's mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and The Powerbook; Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de Voragine's Golden Legend."--Jacket.

Defining Medievalism(s).

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III

Studies in Medievalism XXXI

Carol L. Robinson

Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to today's computer games.

Medievalism in Technology Old and New

Continues: Defining neomedievalism(s). 2010.

Defining Neomedievalism(s) II

Taking as its central theme the idea of memory in medievalism, the contributors address a variety of texts and topics.

Memory and Medievalism

Sarah Salih

Joshua Davies

Essays examining the complex intertwining and effect of medievalism on modernity - and vice versa.

Medievalism and Modernity

The focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on Medievalism, in ever more sessions at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, and by many recent or forthcoming publications, has left little doubt that this important new area of study is here to stay, and that medievalism must come to terms with it. In response to an essay in Studies in Medievalism XVIII defining medievalism in relationship to neomedievalism, this volume therefore begins with seven essays defining neomedievalism in relationship to medievalism. The conclusions reached in these seven essays are then tested by five articles on modern American manifestations of Byzantine art, the Vietnam War as refracted through non-heterosexual implications in the 1976 movie Robin and Marian, versions of abjection in recent Beowulf films, nationalist motives for Victorian portrayals of Chaucer, and nationalist reactions to twentieth-century scholarship on Chaucer's work. Theory and practice are thereby juxtaposed in a volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest growing areas of academia.

Defining Neomedievalism(s)

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance.

Corporate Medievalism

Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the central theme of the ethics of medievalism.

Ethics and Medievalism

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages,

Studies in Medievalism XXX - Politics and Medievalism Studies (II)

Politics and Medievalism (Studies)

Studies in Medievalism XXIX

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance.

Karl Fugelso

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