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Studies in Medievalism is the oldest academic journal dedicated entirely to the study of post-medieval images and perceptions of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to promote the interdisciplinary study of medievalism as a contemporary cultural phenomenon.

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17 results in Studies in Medievalism

Studies in Medievalism
  • (En)gendering Medievalism
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 April 2024
  • Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

Studies in Medievalism XXXII
  • Medievalism in Play
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2023
  • Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies.

Studies in Medievalism XXXI
  • Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 December 2023
    Print publication:
    06 May 2022
  • Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Studies in Medievalism XII
  • Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages
  • Edited by Tom Shippey, Martin Arnold
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 January 2003
  • Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

Studies in Medievalism
  • Defining Neomedievalism(s)
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 July 2010
  • An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.

Studies in Medievalism XVI

Studies in Medievalism XX
  • Defining Neomedievalism(s) II
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 June 2011
  • An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.

Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Studies in Medievalism XXVIII
  • Medievalism and Discrimination
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 January 2023
    Print publication:
    22 April 2019
  • The difficult and nuanced issue of discrimination - race, gender, ethicity, religion - is the focus of this volume.

Studies in Medievalism XXX
  • Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 March 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2021
  • Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

Studies in Medievalism XXIX
  • Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 August 2020
    Print publication:
    20 March 2020
  • Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages

Studies in Medievalism XXVI
  • Ecomedievalism
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 September 2017
    Print publication:
    21 April 2017
  • Ecoconcerns and ecocriticism are a rising trend in medievalism studies, and form a major focus of this collection. Topics under discussion in the first part of the volume include figurations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism; environmental medievalism in Sidney Lanier's Southern chivalry; nostalgia and loss in T.H. White's "forest sauvage"; and green medievalism in J.R.R. Tolkien's elven realms.
    The eleven subsequent articles continue to take in such themes more tangentially, testing and buillding on the methods and conclusions of the first part. Their subjects include John Aubrey's Middle Ages; medieval charter-horns in early modern England; nineteenth-century reimaginings of Chaucer's Griselda; Dante's influence on Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream";multi-layered medievalisms in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; (coopted) feminism via medievalism in Disney's Maleficent; (neo)medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade; cosmopolitan anxieties and national identity in Netflix's Marco Polo; mapping Everealm in The Quest; undergraduate perceptions of the "medieval" and the "Middle Ages"; and medievalism in the prosopopeia and corpsepaint of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

    Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Contributors: Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Daniel Helbert, Ann F. Howey, Carol Jamison, Ann M. Martinez, Kara L. McShane, Lisa Myers, Elan Justice Pavlinich, Katie Peebles, Scott Riley, Paul B. Sturtevant, Dean Swinford, Renée Ward, Angela Jane Weisl, Jeremy Withers.

Studies in Medievalism XXV
  • Medievalism and Modernity
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • With Joshua Davies, Sarah Salih
  • With contributions by Katherine A. Brown , Edward George Breen , Catherine A. M. Clarke , Louise D'Arcens , John Lance Griffith , Michael John Horswell , Pedro Alexandre G. Martins , Paddy Molloy , Lisa Nalbone , James L. Smith and Michelle M. Sauer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    21 June 2016
  • The question of how modernity has influenced medievalism and how medievalism has influenced modernity is the theme of this volume. The opening essays examine the 2001 film Just Visiting's comments on modern anxieties via medievalism; conflations of modernity with both medievalism and the Middle Ages in rewriting sources; the emergence of modernity amid the post-World War I movement The MostNoble Order of Crusaders; António Sardinha's promotion of medievalism as an antidote to modernity; and Mercedes Rubio's medievalism in her feminist commentary on modernity. The eight subsequent articles build on this foundation while discussing remnants of medieval London amid its modern descendant; Michel Houellebecq's critique of medievalism through his 2011 novel La Carte et le territoire; historical authenticity in Michael Morrow's approach to performing medieval music; contemporary concerns in Ford Madox Brown and David Gentleman's murals; medieval Chester in Catherine A.M. Clarkeand Nayan Kulkarni's Hryre (2012); medieval influences on the formation of and debate about modern moral panics; medievalist considerations in modern repurposings of medieval anchorholds; andmedieval sources for Paddy Molloy's Here Be Dragons (2013). The articles thus test the essays' methods and conclusions, even as the essays offer fresh perspectives on the articles.

    Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Contributors: Edward Breen, Katherine A. Brown, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Louise D'Arcens, Joshua Davies, John Lance Griffith, Mike Horswell, Pedro Martins, Paddy Molloy, Lisa Nalbone, Sarah Salih, Michelle M. Sauer, James L. Smith

Studies in Medievalism XXIV
  • Medievalism on the Margins
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • With Vincent Ferré, Alicia C. Montoya
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • This volume not only defines medievalism's margins, as well as its role in marginalizing other fields, ideas, people, places, and events, but also provides tools and models for exploring those issues and indicates new subjects to which they might apply. The eight opening essays address the physical marginalizing of medievalism in annotated texts on medieval studies; the marginalism of oneself via medievalism; medievalism's dearth of ecotheory and religious studies; academia's paucity of pop medievalism; and the marginalization of races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and literary characters in contemporary medievalism. The seven subsequent articles build on this foundation while discussing: the distancing of oneself (and others) during imaginary visits to the Middle Ages; lessons from the margins of Brazilian medievalism; mutual marginalization among factions of Spanish medieval studies; and medievalism in the marginalization of lower socio-economic classes in late-eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain, of modern gamers, of contemporary laborers, and of Alfred Austin, a late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet also known as Alfred the Little. In thus investigating the margins of and marginalization via medievalism, the volume affirms their centrality to the field. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Nadia R. Altschul, Megan Arnott, Jaume Aurell, Juan Gomis Coloma, Elizabeth Emery, Vincent Ferré, Valerie B. Johnson, Alexander L. Kaufman, Erin Felicia Labbie, VickieLarsen, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly, Alicia C. Montoya, Serina Patterson, Jeff Rider, Lindsey Simon-Jones, Richard Utz, Helen Young.

Studies in Medievalism XXIII
  • Ethics and Medievalism
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 May 2014
    Print publication:
    21 August 2014
  • Ethics in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume. The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities, and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism. The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda, disjunctures from medieval literature to medievalist film in portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman, Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley, Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L. Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.

Studies in Medievalism XXII
  • Corporate Medievalism II
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    18 July 2013
  • In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages. And Clare Simmons expands on that approach in a full-length article on the Lord Mayor's Show in London. Readers are then invited to find other permutations of corporate influence in six articles on the gendering of Percy's 'Reliques', the Romantic Pre-Reformation in Charles Reade's 'The Cloister and the Hearth', renovation and resurrection in M.R. James's "Episode of Cathedral History", salvation in the 'Commedia' references of Rodin's 'Gates of Hell', film theory and the relationship of the Sister Arts to the cinematic 'Beowulf', and American containment culture in medievalist comic-books. While offering close, thorough studies of traditional media and materials, the volume directly engages timely concerns about the motives and methods behind this field and many others in academia. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Aida Audeh, Elizabeth Emery, Katie Garner, Nickolas Haydock, Amy S. Kaufman, Peter W. Lee, Patrick J. Murphy, Fred Porcheddu, Clare A. Simmons, Mark B. Spencer, Richard Utz.

Studies in Medievalism XXI
  • Corporate Medievalism
  • Edited by Karl Fugelso
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    19 July 2012
  • Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book, contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing specific case studies with broader investigations of the discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the treatment of women in medievalist film. The book also includes a spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert, Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan, Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J. Toswell, J. Rubén Valdés Miyares.