The main idea behind this study is to look into Viking festivals’ contents, characteristics and its concept development. Together with that we test out the Experience design model effectiveness for using in the event studies. I
Historical Re-enactments: The Production and Design of Viking Festival Experiences
November 28, 2015 By
From the Middle Ages to Modernity: The Intersecting Supernatural Worlds of Melusine and Today’s Popular Culture
November 28, 2015 By
This work contains many elements common to supernatural tales of its time-shape-shifting, magic fountains and marriages between humans and fairies – yet it is also surprisingly relevant to our own age, whose popular culture is saturated with modem myths and vampire love-stories.
Call for Papers: International Society of Medievalism Annual Conference
November 17, 2015 By
The next annual conference of the International Society of Medievalism will take place at Bamberg University and is scheduled to take place 18-20 July 2016.
Crucifix, calvary, and cross: materiality and spirituality in Great War landscapes
November 11, 2015 By
First World War landscapes are a complex layering of commemorative materialities and spirituality, in which the past is recycled and memory perpetuated in the present.
Knights, Rulers, Pilgrims and Writers: Female Characters in Medieval Children’s Books
October 28, 2015 By
Female characters in modern children’s literature have been shown to be represented in a stereotypical manner, but gender in historical fiction for children has received little scholarly attention.
The new knighthood: Terrorism and the medieval
October 8, 2015 By
Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik describes himself as a member of a neomedieval, underground paramilitary group known as the Knights Templar.
American Medievalism: Medieval Reenactment as Historical Interpretation in the United States
September 11, 2015 By
This thesis will examine how the Middle Ages are historically interpreted and portrayed in the United States.
A clerk ther was of Rowan County also…. What the Kim Davis Case Tells Us About America’s Long Middle Ages
September 8, 2015 By
Have you ever thought about the relationship between the words “clerk” and “clergy”?
Arthur Pendragon, Eco-Warrior
September 6, 2015 By
This essay explores the environmental agendas and ambitions that motivate John Timothy Rothwell, ‘a mad biker chieftain wielding an axe,’ who, claiming to be a ‘post-Thatcher’ King Arthur,
Secret Gestures and Silent Revelations: The Disclosure of Secrets in Selected Arthurian Illuminated Manuscripts and Arthurian Films
August 29, 2015 By
This paper explores visual language and iconic systems central to the representation of the Arthurian cycle in thirteenth and fifteenth century Gothic illuminated manuscripts and in two Arthurian films; its focus is the theme of courtly love and crucial revelations of the secret or hidden.
The Medieval Cathedral: From Spiritual Site to National Super-Signifier
August 22, 2015 By
Although the cathedrals were often mutilated, emptied of their relics, treasures, and clergy, their close association with national glory and the sense of fascination that association had brought about kept them from being closed or destroyed entirely.
The Knights of the Front: Medieval History’s Influence on Great War Propaganda
August 14, 2015 By
The article makes the argument that the realities of the First World War shattered the chivalrous and romantic ideals of war so completely that the concepts and images were no longer appropriate for use as propaganda.
The Diverse Pedagogies of Medievalism
August 5, 2015 By
This roundtable explored some of the many pedagogies of medievalism in the modern academy. To what purposes is medievalism taught, and how? Using what texts and in what contexts?
Can We Talk About Religion, Please? Medievalism’s Eschewal of Religion, and Why it Matters
August 2, 2015 By
With this essai I would like to advocate for a reconsideration of religion as an essential topic for medievalism studies.
When Reality Becomes Fantasy: How Video Games are Hijacking the Middle Ages
July 15, 2015 By
“The Middle Ages is a space where White Supremecy is legitimised. The maintenance of white privilege. The gamer community use ‘historical facts’ to legitimise this kind of literacy.’
Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Medievalism, Satanism, and the Dark Illumination of the Self in the Aesthetics of Black Metal
July 14, 2015 By
The upside-down world of Satanic black metal is uncanny, both familiar in its use of inverted tropes and schemes and yet completely ‘other’ to those on the outside looking in, including Christians and consumers of mainstream popular culture.
Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
June 25, 2015 By
This paper explores the appropriation of the Old English poem by modern popular culture in such a distinctive 20th-century art-form as the comic book, which proves that a heroic, legendary story already old for the Anglo-Saxons —it was set in geardagum, ‘the ancient days’— still elicits the interest of the audience in the modern world.
Primetime Paganism: Popular-Culture Representations of Europhilic Polytheism in Game of Thrones and Vikings
June 7, 2015 By
This article provides a critical examination of the politico-religious content of the highly successful television series Game of Thrones and Vikings.
From Runes to Ruins: Documentary looks at rediscovering the Anglo-Saxon past
June 4, 2015 By
In his latest film, From Runes to Ruins, Tom Rowsell examines how people in England are reclaiming their Anglo-Saxon heritage, including its religion.
Genre Medievalisms: Geek Goes Chic!
June 4, 2015 By
Is Cersei a collection of bad medieval stereotypes? Have nerds gone mainstream? Were American cowboys a modern retelling of the medieval knight? Put down that comic, put away your bag of dice, and indulge your inner nerd.
Reinventing the Hero: Gardner’s Grendel and the Shifting Face of Beowulf in Popular Culture
April 17, 2015 By
In twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglophone culture, the impact of Beowulfiana — what we call that amorphous mass of materials that have accumulated around the poem — has been widespread yet subtle.
’I’m gonna git Medieval on your ass’: Pulp Fiction for the 90s – the 1190s
April 17, 2015 By
We feel confident in asserting that there are any number of telling informative analogies between Pulp Fiction and medieval chivalric literature, particularly Arthurian romance.
Medieval Baltimore: Using American Medievalism to Teach about the European Middle Ages
April 16, 2015 By
The article describes the experience of teaching undergraduate college students the history of Medieval Europe through individual research projects using the city of Baltimore (USA), its buildings, monuments, museums, and the professional medievalists working and residing in the area.
Live Role-play of Medieval Fantasy and its relationship to the Media
April 8, 2015 By
Medieval Fantasy, as an entertainment genre, supplements historical images of the Middle Ages with elements of myth in adventure stories featuring magicians, knights and ladies, castles, dragons, swords, and sorcery that are routinely consumed and absorbed.
Lessons from the Viking Lifestyle
March 20, 2015 By
‘I am here to talk to you about my life as a Viking and how it has changed and shaped my personality and the way I view several aspects of today’s society, and how I started hunting for the authentic experience.’
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