Studies in Medievalism

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Volume XXXIII 2024

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xviii

I - (En)gendering Medievalism

pp 1-2

The Peacock Television Network’s Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail

pp 3-10

Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones

pp 11-20

Capital One’s Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials

pp 21-28

The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities

pp 29-36

II - Other Responses to Medievalism

pp 37-38

Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain

pp 39-56

Seaxy Beast: Grendel’s Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in Beowulf Adaptations

pp 57-82

Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender, and Self-Acceptance in the Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi

pp 83-96

Exalted by Honour: Women’s Medievalist History Plays in the Late Eighteenth Century

pp 97-118

A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom Come: Deliverance

pp 119-144

The “Old Frisian” Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland’s Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century

pp 145-168

Neither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum

pp 169-186

Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

pp 187-200

Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife

pp 201-216

The Smith, the Devil, and Jim Crow: Medieval Hagiography, Victorian Popular Culture, and the Legacy of Slavery in Edward G. Flight’s The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil

pp 217-246

Contributors

pp 247-250

Previously Published Volumes

pp 251-251