Brute force: Medieval foundation myths and three modern organizations’ quests for hegemony
This article takes the narrative tropes of Europe’s archetypal national foundation myth, the founding of Rome, retold in the epic Latin poem, Virgil’s Aeneid, and traces their reemergence in the foundation stories of three major modern organizations.
Coconuts in Camelot: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Arthurian Literature Course
Student enthusiasm for Monty Python’s film contrasts with the noticeably more restrained stance of scholarly opinion which, while rarely omitting to mention the film’s existence in discussions of cinematic Arthuriana, has relatively little to say about the actual film.
The debate on the Epistolae duorum amantium. Current status
The methodological questions at stake are much more important and interesting. To quote the initial words of P. von Moos’ monumental article, these documents represent a real challenge for medievalism.
Perception of Women of the Arthurian Legend in the Middle Ages and in the Twentieth Century
The first chapter of my thesis provides a chronological account of the development of female characters in the Arthurian legend. The chapter begins with Celtic myths from which the legend originated, the role of women in Celtic religion and society is described as well as the extent to which the Celtic aspects of the legend have been preserved…
Living history: learning through re-enactment
We are interested in the ways in which adult learn through engaging in leisure pursuits that have educational outcomes. Specifically in this paper we are interested in learning history; and second, we are interested in learning about history through doing.
Medieval Mummers are this year’s holiday hit – so says The Onion
The must-see hit of the holidays is a group of medieval mummers, who are going door-to-door singing old-fashioned ballads and acting out jovial plays in return for mugs of ale and gold pieces.
Regency Medievalism and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page, a celebrated musician and musicologist, will be coming to the University of Bristol on Thursday to give a lecture, entitled ‘Regency Medievalism and the Early-Romantic Guitar’, which will consider how the guitar, so favoured by amateur musicians among the nobility and gentry by 1830, came to be involved with a developing interest in the Middle Ages during the Regency period.
Battle of the Nations TV series
The Association of Historical Reenactors of the Middle Ages has created a unique film about the movement of historical reenactment of the Middle Ages.
Postmodern Middle Ages: Medieval Music at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
The reduction of the Middle Ages to a decorative function has nothing to do with the Middle Ages and everything to do with our era: the Middle Ages have become part of the vocabulary of our time—they have become present in the twentieth century. Why is this so?
Burgundian Costume: Being a study of women’s formal dress of Northern Europe, especially Burgundy and Flanders, in the later half of the 15th century
The fashionable dress of the later 15th Century has become iconographic with our modern idea of medievalism. Such popular portrayal, largely inauthentic, has linked it with the re-enactor’s idea of bad medievalism.
Riding the Horse, Writing the Cultural Myth: The European Knight and the American Cowboy as Equestrian Heroes
Riding the Horse, Writing the Cultural Myth: The European Knight and the American Cowboy as Equestrian Heroes By Metin Boşnak and Cem Ceyhan…
Dialectical Heroes: Robin Hood and King Arthur Across Time, Genre and Politics
Dialectical Heroes: Robin Hood and King Arthur Across Time, Genre and Politics By Stephen Knight Research Papers in the Humanities No.6 (2007) Introduction:…
The New Middle Ages: Medievalism in McLuhan and Vacca
The New Middle Ages: Medievalism in McLuhan and Vacca By Francesco Guardiani McLuhan Studies, Issue 6 (1996) Abstract: A very successful book formulated…
The Evolution of Arab Conceptions of the Crusades
The Evolution of Arab Conceptions of the Crusades By John “Garick” Chamberlin Strategic Insights, Vol.6:2 (2007) Introduction: The Crusades are an extremely emotional…
Teaching the Middle Ages on Film: Visual Narrative and the Historical Record
Is it appropriate to point out inaccuracies of detail in historical film? As a collective commercial enterprise, is a movie inherently limited in its portrayal of the past, and does this matter? How does film convention affect representation? Can movies err on the side of historical truth?
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES Huot, Sylvia Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue…
GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDIEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE
GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDlEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE Gaunt, Simon Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract Simon Gaunt and…
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier Edited by Kathryn Brush Museum London, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-897215-30-2 Introduction: Art and cultural historians have traditionally examined…
Viking Pop Culture on Display: The Case of the Horned Helmets
Never worn by Vikings, this popular cultural icon embodies the disjuncture between scholarly and popular knowledge of the Viking past.
Appropriating the Other on the Edge of the World: Representations of the Western Middle Ages in Modern Japanese Culture
This article explores how the Western Middle Ages is represented in contemporary Japanese popular culture.
“Viking” North America: The North American Public’s Understanding of Its Norse Heritage
“Viking” North America: The North American Public’s Understanding of Its Norse Heritage By Megan Arnott Paper given at the 46th International Congress on…
The Lay of Igor’s Campaign and the Works It Has Inspired
In A.D. 1185, as the Kievan Rus Empire was starting to deteriorate, a little known prince on the eastern Russian borders led his outnumbered men into battle against Mongolian invaders, the Polovtsians (Kumans)
Based on a True History?: The Impact of Popular ‘Medieval Film’ on the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages
This thesis examines the understanding of the Middle Ages among the UK public and the impact that popular big-budget films which depict the period have on that understanding.
A modern medieval mystery play: taking the “mystery” out of the Middle Ages
A modern medieval mystery play: taking the “mystery” out of the Middle Ages By Robyn Lee Bernadette Gram Master’s Thesis: California State University,…
Drinking and Debauchery: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Beowulf (Butchered)
The filmic renditions analysed are Zemeckis’s 2007 performance capture Beowulf (the Hollywood version), and Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf and Grendel (2005, a Canadian-Icelandic production): they both deviate from the original poem, but given their closeness in date, the different treatment is so considerable as to warrant comparison.