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Making the Medieval Relevant: Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Studies on Disease and Disability

Medievalists.net — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:44:38 +0000

A summary of a paper given by Professor Christina Lee at the University of Nottingham's "Making the Medieval Relevant" Conference.

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Celebrating Agincourt 600 at the Wallace Collection

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:54:02 +0000

This week, historians around the world are gearing up to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, one of the most significant battles of the Hundred Year’s War.

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High-Tech Feudalism: Warrior Culture and Science Fiction TV

Medievalists.net — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:25:39 +0000

"Richard ΠΙ with aliens" is how Cornell (102) describes "Sins of the Father," an episode of Star Trek: TheNext Generation (hereafter TNG) in which the Klingon warrior Worf, son of Mogh, seeks to restore his family's honour by exposing and challenging those responsible for falsely accusing his dead father of treason to the Klingon Empire.

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The Hero’s Journey: Beowulf, Film, and Masculinity

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:58:19 +0000

Beowulf is one of many examples of a story that employs the rhetoric of the hero. The plight of the main character Beowulf is the focus of the tale, and the tasks that he must overcome throughout the course of the poem provide insight into the development of the character of the hero.

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Vikings, the barbaric heroes: exploring the Viking image in museums in Iceland and England and its impact on identity

Medievalists.net — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:33:20 +0000

This study analyses the responses of Icelandic and English individuals in regards to their views on the Viking image as represented within museums and in society.

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ARTICLES: The Deflation of the Medieval in Joyce’s Ulysses

Medievalists.net — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:47:34 +0000

For James Joyce, Irish nationalism, with its appeal to patriotic emotionality and promotion of interest in the archaic and medieval Irish past, was suspect.

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CONFERENCE: The Historical Novel Society – London 2014

Medievalists.net — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:58:11 +0000

My review of the recent Historical Novel Society conference that took place in London, England.

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Extralegal and English: the Robin Hood Legend and Increasing National Identity in the Middling Sorts of Late Medieval England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:49:24 +0000

The legend was clearly not the only work of popular culture in what I propose as the long fifteenth century, but it does serve as a very useful representation for examining the growth of Englishness.

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The American Dark Ages and the Terrorist Witch in Season of the Witch

Medievalists.net — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:41:36 +0000

In this article we argue that medieval films are not to be analyzed according to their faithfulness to the known historical sources, but that they can only be fully analyzed by understanding medievalist codes, traditions and (filmic) intertextuality.

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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘A Knight’s Tale’

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 May 2014 10:36:52 +0000

Staying home on a Sunday night? Looking for a fun medieval movie to watch? Here is my review of 'A Knight's Tale' for your Sunday night selection!

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