Studies in Medievalism XXXV

Medievalism in Theory and Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-84384-782-3
Verlag: D.S.Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 246 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Reihe: Studies in Medievalism

Essays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political movements.

Two vital, increasingly intertwined areas of interest are addressed by this collection: politics and theory. The volume begins with a general discussion of how the Middle Ages have been particularly mediated by subsequent artifacts. The essays then address: the motivations and machinations behind Joan of Arc AI in Gregory Benford's 1989 contribution to the Time Gate anthologies; medievalist historiography in Salman Rushdie's 1983 novel Shame; medievalist identity in Rome's contemporary far-right movement; Viking imagery in and around the Make America Great Again campaign; Robin Hood avatars in mid-twentieth-century B-westerns; medievalism by the Young German Order during the 1920s and 30s; the visibility of race in David Lowery's 2021 film The Green Knight; Orientalism and race in the 1974 game Dungeons & Dragons; manifestations of Chaucer's Pardoner in Kim Zarins' 2016 novel Sometimes We Tell the Truth; gender performance and sexuality in Maria Dahvana Headley's 2020 translation of Beowulf; and the term "Anglo-Saxon," particularly relative to the Ansax-1 and ANSAXNET online communities.

'"Donald the Orange": Vikings in and around the Maga Movement' is made Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fugelso, Karl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kline, Daniel T

Young, Helen

Harty, Kevin J

Toswell, M. J.

Marzullo, Martina

Hardy, Mat

Dhouib, Mohamed Karim

Eickman, Patrick

Murphy, Patrick J

Rahman, Sabina

Abbas, Sameera

Manning, Scott

Valentine, Teddy

Miller, Timothy

Birkett, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface
Karl Fugelso

Medievalism, Reception Theory, and Media Archaeology: What is the Object of Reception?
Daniel T. Kline

Joan of Arc AI in Time Gate (1989): A Medieval Simulacrum in the Twenty-Second Century
Scott Manning

Navigating the Phantasmic: Medievalism and Mythic Historiography in Salman Rushdie's Shame
Sameera Abbas

Presente: Medieval Symbols and Mythic Identity in Rome's Far-Right Imaginary
Martina Marzullo

The Christian-Democratic Medievalism of the Young German Order
Patrick James Eickman

"Donald the Orange": Vikings in and around the Maga Movement
Tom Birkett

"Back in the Saddle Again" in Sherwood Forest: Robin Hood Avatars in Hollywood B-Westerns from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s
Kevin J. Harty

"Make Merry, and Tell Me What You See": Visibility of Race inColonialist Fantasy and David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021)
Sabina Rahman

From Chainmail to Tasha's Cauldron: Medievalism, Orientalism, and Race in Dungeon and Dragons
Helen Young and Mat Hardy

Undoing Chaucer's Pardoner in Kim Zarins' Sometimes We Tell the Truth
Mohamed Karim Dhouib

"War-wedded to a woe-bringer": Gender Performance and Queer Sexuality in Maria Dahvana Headley's Translation of Beowulf
Timothy S. Miller and Teddy Valentine

Ansax-l, ANSAXNET, and Anglo-Saxon: The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and the Wonderful
M. J. Toswell

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Helen
HELEN YOUNG is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia where they hold an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.

Toswell, M. J.
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.