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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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. 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 via six essays that directly
address how the Middle Ages have been put in play with regard to
Alice Munro's 1977 short story "The Beggar Maid"; David Lowery's
2021 film The Green Knight; medievalist archaisms in Japanese video
games; runic play in Norse-themed digital games; medievalist
managerialism in the 2020 video game Crusader Kings III; and
neomedieval architectural praxis in the 2014 video game Stronghold:
Crusader II. The approaches and conclusions of those essays are
then tested in the second section's six essays as they examine
"muscular medievalism" in George R. R. Martin's 1996 novel A Game
of Thrones; the queering of the Arthurian romance pattern in the
2018-20 television show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; the
interspecies embodiment of dis/ability in the 2010 film How to
Train Your Dragon; late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century
nationalism in Irish reimaginings of the Fenian Cycle; post-bellum
medievalism in poetry of the Confederacy; and the medievalist
presentation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2020-21
Covid inoculation.
Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political
aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the
most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how the
Middle Ages have been subsequently deployed for political ends. The
six essays in the first section directly address that concern with
regard to Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges's contemporaneous
responses to the 1871 Commune; the hypocrisy of the Robinhood App's
invocation of their namesake; misunderstood parallels and
differences between the Covid-19 pandemic and medieval plagues;
Peter Gill's reworking of a major medieval Mystery play in his 2001
The York Realist; celebrations of medieval monks by the American
alt-right; and medieval references in twenty-first-century novels
by the American neo-Nazi Harold A. Covington. The approaches and
conclusions of those essays are then tested in the second section's
seven articles as they examine widely discredited alt-right claims
that strong kings ruled medieval Finland; Norse medievalism in WWI
British and German propaganda; post-war Black appropriation of
white jousting tournaments in the Antebellum South; early American
references to the Merovingian Dynasty; Rudyard Kipling's deployment
of the Middle Ages to defend his beliefs; the reframing of St.
Anthony by Agustina Bessa-Luis's 1973 biography of him; and
post-medieval Portuguese reworkings of the Goat-Foot-Lady and other
medieval legends.
The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature,
investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film. The theme of the
quest in Arthurian literature - mainly but not exclusively the
Grail quest - is explored in the essays presented here, covering
French, Dutch, Norse, German, and English texts. A number of the
essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian
chivalry and the Grail ethos. Whereas most of the contributors
reflect on the popularity of the Grail quest, several examine the
comparative rarity of the Grail in certain literatures and define
the elaboration of quest motifs severed from the Grail material. An
appendix to the volume offers a filmography that includes all the
cinematic treatments of the Grail, either as central theme or minor
motif. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and general
readers fascinated by the Arthurian and Grail legends.
CONTRIBUTORS: NORRIS J. LACY, ANTONIO FURTADO, WILL HASTY, RICHARD
TRACHSLER, MARIANNE E. KALINKE, MARTINE MEUWESE, DAVID F. JOHNSON,
PHILLIP BOARDMAN, CAROLINE D. ECKHARDT, P.J.C. FIELD, JAMES P.
CARLEY, RICHARD BARBER, KEVIN J. HARTY
The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years
of the English Arthurian tradition. It is arguably the tragic end
to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance
and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of
death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in
Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors,
texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the
chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and
the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and
Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the
myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald
Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include
Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk,
Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe,
Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble,
Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty
In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a
variety of backgrounds in medieval studies, film studies, and
medievalism discuss how historical and fictional medieval women
have been portrayed on film and their connections to the feminist
movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. From detailed studies of
the portrayal of female desire and sexuality, to explorations of
how and when these women gain agency, these essays look at the
different ways these women reinforce, defy, and complicate
traditional gender roles. Individual essays discuss the complex and
sometimes conflicting cinematic treatments of Guinevere, Morgan Le
Fay, Isolde, Maid Marian, Lady Godiva, Heloise, Eleanor of
Aquitaine, and Joan of Arc. Additional essays discuss the women in
Fritz Lang's The Nibelungen, Liv Ullmann's Kristin Lavransdatter,
and Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Beatrice.
Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century,
including film and black popular culture. Eleven essays by leading
Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting
directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other
essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas
of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach
Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian
literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first
century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture,
current trends in criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film.
Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN
ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA
LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE
WHEELER.
The Holy Grail, the cup from the Last Supper, is among
Christianity's most sacred relics. Down through the ages, the quest
to find that vessel has down been the inspiration for many intent
upon harnessing the power of the Grail for their own purposes. In
this first collection of essays to study the long film tradition
depicting that quest, seventeen film scholars and cultural critics
from Canada, France, Great Britain, and the United States discuss a
wide range of American and European films which present a rich
assortment of medieval and latter-day Grail knights. Monty Python
and the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Fisher
King, The Da Vinci Code, The Waterboy, The Road Warrior, The Silver
Chalice, Excalibur, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead
are just a few of the many films discussed here.
Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings
have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century.
Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and
Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted directors,
including Richard Fleischer, Clive Donner and Terry Jones, have all
lent their talents to Viking-related films. These fourteen essays
on films dealing with the Viking era discuss American, British and
European productions. Analyzed in detail are such films as The
Vikings (1958), The Long Ships (1964), Alfred the Great (1969),
Erik the Viking (1989) and Outlander (2008), as well as a pair of
comic-strip adaptations, the live-action Prince Valiant (1997) and
the animated Asterix and the Vikings (2006). A comprehensive
filmography is also included.
Those tales of old - King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco
Polo, Joan of Arc - have been told and retold, and the tradition of
their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its
very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's films in
1897, to a 1996 animated Hunchback of Notre Dame, film has offered
not just fantasy but exploration of these roles so vital to the
modern psyche. St. Joan has undergone the transition from peasant
girl to self-assured saint, and Camelot has transcended the
soundstage to evoke the Kennedys in the White House. Here is the
first comprehensive survey of over 900 cinematic depictions of the
European Middle Ages - date of production, country of origin,
director, production company, cast, and a synopsis and commentary.
A bibliography, index, and over 100 stills complete this remarkable
work.
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