Medieval Myth-Busting at the Movies
The five of the most common myths about the Middle Ages from the movies, busted.
The Development of Arthurian Legends
King Arthur is a well known character of literature and film, and any person on the street could probably recall many aspects of his story. However, the story that so many people know and love is the result of hundreds of years of transformation and manipulation of a legend. It did not begin with much grandiosity or with very much background information.
Cutting and Running from the (Medieval) Middle East: The Mises-hors-scène of Kingdom of Heaven’s Double DVDs
Cutting and Running from the (Medieval) Middle East: The Mises-hors-scène of Kingdom of Heaven’s Double DVDs Richard Burt 15 | 2007 : Le Moyen…
Medieval Movie Review: Army of Darkness
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick!
Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies
Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies Richard Burt (Guest Co-Editor, University of Florida) EXEMPLARIA: VOL. 19, NO. 2, SUMMER 2007, 217…
Here comes the Hun again…
TSMorangles takes a look at the 1954 film Sign of the Pagan, starring Jack Palance as Attila and Jeff Chandler as Marcian.
Movie Preview: Vikingdom
Being released today in 21 cities across the United States, this Malaysian-made film is loosely based on Viking mythology.
Review: Prince Vladimir
If the Anglo-Saxons bemoan about the mist surrounding the Dark Ages, wait till you meet Russians!
The ‘New’ Monty Python and the Holy Grail trailer
Imagine Monty Python and the Holy Grail not as a comedy, but as a serious historical epic! This would be its trailer.
Manifestations of the Grotesque and Carnivalesque Body in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
Manifestations of the Grotesque and Carnivalesque Body in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal Brian Gourley (School of English, Queen’s University Belfast)Queen’s University Belfast, Quest, Vol.1…
Recreation and Representation: The Middle Ages on Film (1950-2006)
If people seem to like films as a whole, and they seem to like the Middle Ages in general, why are they so frequently dissatisfied with films made about the Middle Ages in particular?
Movie Review: Ironclad
The movie was made entirely in Wales and it has a gritty and raw edge to it that I really enjoyed. The film is fairly fast paced and violent, but not to the point where it’s just swords and flash.
Black in Camelot: Race & Ethnicity in Arthurian Legend
Examining depictions of Africans in medieval and contemporary Arthurian literature, television and film.
Human Monstrosity in Terminator II: Judgement Day, Beowulf and The Passion of St Christopher
The idea of a humanoid monster that can be reluctantly empathized with can be traced back to various source texts. For example, Grendel in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is a bloodthirsty savage, however upon a close reading of the poem he appears more human.
“One Woman with Many Faces”: Imaginings of Mary Magdalen in Medieval and Contemporary Texts
This project explores these contradictory and myriad imaginings of Mary Magdalen, emphasizing particularly the connections to be made between those emerging from the later Middle Ages and in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
I’m here not to pander to the fandom, but be brutally honest as a Tolkien lover: The Hobbit was just not that good. In fact, dare I say it, *gasps!*, it wasn’t good at all.
Character-Assassination: Conrad de Monferrat in English-language Fiction and Popular Histories
It is a story will all the ingredients of epic tragedy: a brilliant, courageous and handsome nobleman travels to distant lands, fights battles, marries princesses, is elected King but is slain by treachery, still relatively young, just before he is crowned.
Collectivism in Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai
Japanese tradition has revolved for centuries around the concept that groups of people must work together to accomplish goals.
Got Medieval?
Developing queer history through the concept of affective connection—a touch across time—and through the intentional collapse of conventional historical time, I wanted in Getting Medieval to help queer studies re- spond to such desire.