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Medievalitas
Feb 21, 20201 min read
And why again should we care about the Middle Ages?
Great essay that answers this question: Access it HERE
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Medievalitas
Feb 21, 20202 min read
CFP: Travels in Hyperreality: medievalism and postmodern musical cultures
Oxford Brookes University, 16th-17th July 2020. It has been 37 years since Umberto Eco wrote Travels in Hyperreality. Gazing at the...
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Medievalitas
Jan 22, 20201 min read
Terry Jones, of Monty Python Fame, Dies
Someone who had more impact on medievalism than five dozen academics just left us. "Terry Jones, founder member of Monty Python and...
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Medievalitas
Jan 10, 20201 min read
Notre Dame and the Science of a Medieval Space
A very informative article in NATURE about how specialists in medieval architecture, building construction, and many other areas...
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Medievalitas
Dec 11, 20191 min read
Oxford Handbook on Victorian Medievalism
Looks like it's materializing in 2020, after some delays. Congrats to the editors, Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner. My own essay is on...
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Medievalitas
Dec 8, 20191 min read
Ten questions...
An initiative that will help current and future students learn more about faculty and administrators. Happy they picked a Game of Thrones...
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Medievalitas
Nov 15, 20191 min read
Medieval Studies after Charlottesville
Looking forward to discussing the post-Charlottesville state of the field in person rather than in various deindividuated social media...
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Medievalitas
Oct 31, 20197 min read
Adventures in Anglalond: Angles, Saxons, and Academics
Originally published, with illustrations, in Medievally Speaking, October 31, 2019. Adventures in Anglalond: Angles, Saxons, and...
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Medievalitas
Oct 28, 20199 min read
Reviewing Ziolkowski, The Juggler of Notre Dame, vols. I & II
Published with The Medieval Review, October 29, 2019. Ziolkowski, Jan M. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. 6...
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Medievalitas
Oct 7, 20191 min read
New study on Neomedievalism
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, former Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and now Affiliated Researcher in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media,...
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Medievalitas
Oct 4, 20194 min read
Global Medievalisms, conference program
As a way to preserve a record of the program for the 34th International Conference on Medievalism, I am reposting it here: GLOBAL...
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Medievalitas
Sep 26, 20191 min read
Game of Thrones in Brazil
Today, we had Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra in my undergraduate/graduate class on Game of Thrones & Global Media. He is currently finishing...
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Medievalitas
Sep 23, 20191 min read
A new challenge
Writing definitions of 'medievalism' has been part of my scholarly path for the last two decades. This time it's a special challenge, an ...
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Medievalitas
Jul 1, 20191 min read
Is Medieval Studies at War?
I personally don't think so, but here is another article, this time in the Chronicle, that describes what the journalist perceives to be...
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Medievalitas
Jun 19, 20191 min read
34th International Conference on Medievalism: CALL FOR PAPERS
Although we have received a good number of abstracts for sessions and individual papers, we have enough time to extend the CFP until July...
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Medievalitas
May 30, 20191 min read
Political Medievalisms
CALL FOR PAPERS STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXIX: POLITICAL MEDIEVALISM From Hitler’s“Third Reich”to Bush’s “crusade”against terrorism,...
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Medievalitas
May 19, 20191 min read
How will Game of Thrones 'end'?
A journalist recently asked about my prediction for the “ending” of Game of Thrones: Before the beginning of the final season, I was...
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Medievalitas
Apr 16, 20191 min read
The world's cathedral
Medievalists.net asked me for a statement about the fire at Notre Dame de Paris: "The visceral responses to the conflagration of...
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