Spiritual woman warrior : the construction of Joan of Arc in contemporary children’s literature
Spiritual woman warrior : the construction of Joan of Arc in contemporary children’s literature By Melanie J. Fishbane Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2003…
Searching For The Authentic: Foodservice At A Medieval Banquet
Searching For The Authentic: Foodservice At A Medieval Banquet By Cate Clifford, Richard Robinson and Charles Arcodia Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary…
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier is a project and exhibition that examines the impact of “medievalism” on conceptions and representations of the…
The Scandinavians in Poland: a re-evaluation of perceptions of the Vikings
The Scandinavians in Poland: a re-evaluation of perceptions of the Vikings By Gregory Cattaneo Brathair, Vol.9:2 (2009) Abstract: The present essay intends to…
The re-making of a mythic hero: Scottish nationalism in “Braveheart”
The re-making of a mythic hero: Scottish nationalism in “Braveheart” By Kenneth Carr Hawley Master’s Thesis, Texas Tech University, 1998 Introduction: Nationalistic sentiment looks…
Reading Braveheart: representing and contesting Scottish identity
This article has emerged out of my interest in the production of Stirling as a symbolic heritage centre and particularly the centrality of the figures of Wallace and Bruce in the town’s place-image, and in nationalist iconography.
The Romantic Revival of Castilian Frontier Ballads in England: Its Precedents and Aftermath
The Romantic Revival of Castilian Frontier Ballads in England: Its Precedents and Aftermath By María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti En la España Medieval, No.32…
Forgetting Osama bin Munqidh, Remembering Osama bin Laden: The Crusades in Modern Muslim Memory
Forgetting Osama bin Munqidh, Remembering Osama bin Laden: The Crusades in Modern Muslim Memory By Umej Bhatia RSIS Monograph No. 12, Nanyang Technological…
Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest
Kipling’s treatment of the Norman Conquest, a subject to which he returns throughout his career, reveals the hidden depths of anxiety and irony in his attitude to empire.
What’s “Middle” About the Middle Ages?
From a modern perspective, the term ‘medieval’ frequently connotes either religion carried to the point of superstition or religious and intellectual intolerance
Medievalist creates new typography to honour 1000th anniversary of the Kingdom of Leon
Ricardo Chao, a Spanish medievalist has created a new typography to honour the one thousandth anniversary of the creation of the Kingdom of…
Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns
Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns By David Bruce and Oliver Creighton International Journal of Heritage Studies,…
Robin Hood: From Medieval Outlaw to Postmodern Media Creature – undergraduate class begins
University of Houston students don’t have to venture into Sherwood Forest or Nottingham to learn about Robin Hood. A new undergraduate literature class…
The Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages
The society aims to focus on how the general public views the Middle Ages through various media, an to interact with authors, filmakers, festival organizers, etc, who help shape the image of medieval society in the contemporary world.
Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages By Michael A. Cramer Scarecrow Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8108-6995-0…
Salas y Quiroga’s Anglo-Saxon England: a Psychological and Sociological Portrait of Power
Salas y Quiroga’s Anglo-Saxon England: a Psychological and Sociological Portrait of Power By Paloma Tejada Caller ATLANTIS. Journal of the Spanish Association of…
The Wild Hunt
In a dark forest a battle rages between the power-hungry Celts, the rampaging Vikings, the secretive wood elves and a mysterious shaman. But…
The creation of medieval history in Luxembourg
The creation of medieval history in Luxembourg By Pit Peporte PhD Dissertation, Edinburgh University, 2008 Abstract: In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the Middle…
Robin Hood in Film
The story of Robin Hood has been made into a movie at least fifty times – with many films going on to become financial and critical successes.
Reputations in Scottish History: King Robert the Bruce (1274-1329)
Have peculiarly Scottish circumstances and processes of change over time coalesced to leave this hero king with a reputation which would, in another country, have taken a more vibrant form far sooner?
The Reel Joan of Arc: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of the Historical Film
The Reel Joan of Arc: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of the Historical Film By Robert A. Rosenstone The Public Historian, Vol. 25,…
Interview with Jerome de Groot
In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular…
Medievalism and Joan Grigsby’s The Orchid Door
Medievalism and Joan Grigsby’s The Orchid Door Brother Anthony Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 17 No. 1 (2009) Abstract The Celtic…
Integration and Inversion : Western Medieval Knights in Japanese Manga and Anime
Integration and Inversion : Western Medieval Knights in Japanese Manga and Anime Griffith, John Lance Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 17…
From Camelot to Sandlot : Gothic Translation in A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
From Camelot to Sandlot : Gothic Translation in A Kid in King Arthur’s Court Yang, Ming-Tsang Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume…