Studies in Medievalism XXXV: Medievalism in Theory and Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781843847823)

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.

Author: Karl Fugelso
ISBN-10: 1843847825
ISBN-13: 9781843847823
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d