{"product_id":"studies-in-medievalism-xxxv-9781843847823","title":"Studies in Medievalism XXXV","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political movements.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTime Gate\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies; medievalist historiography in Salman Rushdie's 1983 novel \u003ci\u003eShame\u003c\/i\u003e; 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e; Orientalism and race in the 1974 game \u003ci\u003eDungeons \u0026amp; Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e; manifestations of Chaucer's Pardoner in Kim Zarins' 2016 novel \u003ci\u003eSometimes We Tell the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e; gender performance and sexuality in Maria Dahvana Headley's 2020 translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516175278423,"sku":"9781843847823","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-medievalism-xxxv-9781843847823","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}