Acknowledgments

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xviii

I - Medievalism in Play

pp 1-2

Sexual Play and Medievalism: Alice Munro's “The Beggar Maid”

pp 3-10

Spoiling the Sport, Upping the Ante, and Calling His Bluff: Why St. Winifred Appears in David Lowery's 2021 Film The Green Knight

pp 11-20

“My guise doth not incur thy trust”: Translating English Medievalism and Archaism to and from Japanese in a Video Game Context

pp 21-30

“Boy, what do those runes say?”: Runic Play in Norse-Themed Digital Games

pp 31-50

Middle (Ages) Managers: Crusader Kings III as Medievalist Managerialism

pp 51-72

“Castles are like possessions: merely temporary!”: Neomedieval Architectural Praxis in Stronghold: Crusader II

pp 73-92

II - Other Responses to Medievalism

pp 93-94

George R. R. Martin's “Muscular Medievalism” in A Game of Thrones: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy

pp 95-114

Big Sword-in-the-Stone Energy: Queering the Arthurian Romance Pattern in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

pp 115-130

Interspecies Embodiment of Dis/Ability in How to Train Your Dragon

pp 131-148

Fenian Medievalisms, from Imperialist to Insurrectionist: Reimagining the Fenian Cycle and the Future of Ireland, 1878–1916

pp 149-170

Medievalism and the Old South: Metaphors and References in the Works of Poets of the Confederacy

pp 171-194

From Holy Lance to Covid-19 Syringe: Benjamin Netanyahu as Curator and Saint

pp 195-216

Contributors

pp 217-220

Previously Published Volumes Details of earlier titles are available from the publisher.

pp 221-222