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Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.
List of contents
Preface -
Karl Fugelso I: (En)gendering MedievalismThe Peacock Television Network's
Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail -
Kevin J. Harty Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in
Game of Thrones - Lauryn Mayer Capital One's Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials -
Carol L. Robinson The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities -
H. Peter Johnsson II: Other Responses to MedievalismMaternal Games in
The Green Knight: Launching Gawain -
Carol Jamison Seaxy Beast: Grendel's Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in
Beowulf Adaptations -
Alison Elizabeth KillileaArtoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender and Self-Acceptance in the
Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi -
Lisa Myers Exalted by Honour: Women's Medievalist History Plays in the Late-Eighteenth Century -
Kirsten Ogilby A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in
Dragon Age: Origins and
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Robert Houghton The "Old Frisian"
Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland's Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century -
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. and Philippus BreukerNeither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum -
Christine Ekholst Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram van Eschenbach's
Parzival and Ernest Cline's
Ready Player One - Chelsea Keane Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley's
The Mere Wife - Mareike Huber The Smith, the Devil, and Jim Crow: Medieval Hagiography, Victorian Popular Culture, and the Legacy
of Slavery in Edward G. Flight's
The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil - Christina M. Heckman
Summary
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.