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…
Ingmar Bergman’s Appropriations of the Images of Death in The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman’s Appropriations of the Images of Death in The Seventh Seal Wang, Denise Ming-yueh Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 17…
Medieval European Studies in Korea Today
Medieval European Studies in Korea Today Lee, Dongchoon & An, Sonjae Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No. 2 (2008) Abstract…
“Medievalists without Borders”
“Medievalists without Borders” Nokes, Richard Scott Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract As technological and social changes…
What shall we do with the Middle Ages?
What shall we do with the Middle Ages? Sonjae, An Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Vol. 15 No.1 (2007) Abstract If we…
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott’s three movies, “Gladiator”, “Black Hawk Down” and most recently “The Kingdom of Heaven” explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.
A Response to Kathleen Biddick
A Response to Kathleen Biddick Aers, David Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract Kathleen Biddick’s paper is characteristically inventive. Ranging across…
A Response to David Aers
A Response to David Aers Biddick, Kathleen Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract David Aers’ paper cogently reminds us that the…
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view By Philip Harttrup PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1998 Abstract: This thesis examines Nikolai Gogol’ s creative and…
Beowulf: Prince of the Geats, Nazis, and Odinists
Beowulf: Prince of the Geats, Nazis, and Odinists By Richard Scott Nokes Old English Newsletter, Vol. 41.3 (2008) Introduction: Beowulf, a poem written in a…
Whose Crusade? Media, Muslims and the “Kingdom of Heaven”
Filmed at the University of Southern California April 18, 2005 Journalism professor Diane Winston, USC Annenberg’s Knight Chair in Media and Religion, leads…
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation By John Micheal Crafton Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art,…
Beyond Historical Accuracy: A Postmodern View of Movies and Medievalism
The treatment of medieval or medieval-inspired films by academic medievalists is often apathetic in nature, or explicitly contemptuous. Some dismiss films as Hollywood fluff, while others, who may enjoy them on the surface, are highly critical of what the movies get wrong.
The Idea of a Middle Ages
The name itself was, of course, coined first by Renaissance humanists to characterize what they saw as a long stagnant, barbaric period between the cultural flowering of Antiquity and its rebirth in fourteenth-century Italy.
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006
Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951–2006 By Margaret Rogerson University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 9870802099242 The York Mystery Plays…
Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism
Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Medievalism By Isabel DiVanna Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4438-0064-8 Reconstructing the Middle Ages…
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages Edited by Janet T. Marquardt and Alyce A. Jordan Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4438-0057-0 Medieval Art…
The Medieval Royal Seat and Forest at Visegrád. A Proposed World Heritage Site and its Heritage Aspects
The Medieval Royal Seat and Forest at Visegrád. A Proposed World Heritage Site and its Heritage Aspects By József Laszlovszky Archaeological and Cultural Heritage…
Authenticating Realism in Medieval Film
Authenticating Realism in Medieval Film By William F. Woods The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, edited by Martha W.…
Not Your Typical Knight: The Emerging On-Screen Defender
The on-screen traditional medieval hero derlves from heroes of medieval literature such as King Arthur, Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad. The medieval heroes are set apart from their enemies by their brawny physiques, their devotions to God, king, and lady, and their fightlng abilities – which are used to promote justlce.
Utopia and the Middle Ages in Popular Culture: A Reading of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven
In our case, the film Kingdom of Heaven, directed by Ridley Scott and released by Twentieth-Century Fox in 2005, has its source in an original screenplay by the American author William Monahan
Images of the End. Hollywood and the Medieval Iconography of the Apocalypse
Images of the End. Hollywood and the Medieval Iconography of the Apocalypse By Lucas Burkart Histoire, Images, Imaginaire, edited by Pascal Dupuy (University of Pisa, 2002)…
Hypertext: A Sacred (He)Art? Cor ad cor loquitur from Augustine to Shelley Jackson
Hypertext: A Sacred (He)Art? Cor ad cor loquitur from Augustine to Shelley Jackson Warren, Martin L. Medieval Forum Vol.2 (2003) Abstract Postmodern thinking…
“The Pale and Perfect Measured Parade”: John Steinbeck’s First Draft of The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“The Pale and Perfect Measured Parade”: John Steinbeck’s First Draft of The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights Stork, Nancy Medieval…
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World By Dianne Tillotson Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of John Tillotson for his…