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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.
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.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 246
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Publication Date:
07 April 2026
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781843847823
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literature: history and criticism, Film history, theory or criticism
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
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