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"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Bringing together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media - ranging from television and film to architecture - and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study addresses three connected themes. Firstly, how does historical accuracy relate to authenticity, and whose version of authenticity is accepted? Secondly, how are the middle ages presented in modern media and why do inaccuracies emerge and persist in these works? Thirdly, how do creators of modern content attempt to produce authentic medieval environments, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of accurate portrayals? The result is nuanced study of medieval culture which sheds new light on the use (and misuse) of medieval history in modern media"--

Medievalism. --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media.

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The election of fringe political parties on the far and extreme right across Europe since spring 2014 has brought the political discourse of 'old Europe' and 'tradition' to the foreground. Writers and politicians on the right have called for the reclamation, rediscovery, and return of the spirit of national identities rooted in the medieval past. Though the 'medieval' is often deployed as a stigmatic symbol of all that is retrograde, against modernity, and barbaric, the medieval is increasingly being sought as a bedrock of tradition, heritage, and identity. Both characterizations - the medieval as violent other and the medieval as vital foundation - are mined and studied in this book. It examines contemporary political uses of the Middle Ages to ask why the medieval continues to play such a prominent role in the political and historical imagination today.

Middle Ages in popular culture --- Medievalism --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Popular culture --- Political aspects. --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- HISTORY --- Medieval. --- World. --- Médiévisme --- Aspects politiques --- Haut Moyen âge -- 476-987 --- Culture populaire --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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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.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Literature, Modern --- Medievalism in literature. --- Middle Ages in literature. --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Medievalism in mass media. --- Medievalism in video games. --- Medieval influences.

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"With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: -- Further reading/weblinks -- 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations -- Images and interviews -- Guide to library archives and manuscript collections -- Guide to heritage collections."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Literature, Medieval --- Medievalism in literature. --- Medievalism in motion pictures. --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Art --- History of civilization --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages in motion pictures. --- History in popular culture. --- Influence.

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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.

Middle Ages in popular culture --- Middle Ages in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecology --- Ecology in literature. --- Moyen Age dans la culture populaire --- Moyen Age dans la littérature --- Ecocritique --- Ecologie --- Ecologie dans la littérature --- History. --- Histoire --- Middle Ages in popular culture. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Popular culture --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1800-1999 --- Cultural Interpretation. --- Ecomedievalism. --- Environmentalism. --- Literature and Environment. --- Literature. --- Medievalism. --- Middle Ages. --- Modern Interpretation.