Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

I: Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
Public Medievalism: Fustel de Coulanges and the Case for "Diplomatic Negotiations" - Elizabeth Emery
Rob from the Rich: The Neomedievalism of the Robinhood Stock App - Valerie B. Johnson
Pandemic Politics: Deploying the Plague - M. J. Toswell
Peter Gill and the Queering of the York Realist - Kevin J. Harty
To be a Monkish Man: Medievalism, Monasticism, Education, and Gender in the United States' Culture Wars - Jacob Doss
Political Fictions: The "Aryan" Medievalisms of Harold A. Covington - Helen Young
II: Other Responses to Medievalism
The Ancient Finnish Kings and their Swedish Archenemy: Nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Alt-Right Memes in Finnish Online Medievalism - Reima Välimäki and Heta Aali
The Politics of Norse Medievalism in the British Press During the First World War - Grace Khuri
A Tournament of Black Knights - Alexandria, Virginia, 1865 - Emancipationists Mobilize the Medieval - Whitney Leeson
"Eternal Legends of the Crimes of Man": The Merovingian Dynasty in Early American Media (1720-1820) - Gregory I. Halfond
Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling's Medievalist Imagination - Richard Utz
Agustina Bessa-Luís's Reinvention of St. António: A Loving Saint without an Altar - Ana Maria Machado
Celtic Imaginary: From Medieval Dama-Pé-de-Cabra to Nineteenth-century Patriotic Versions - Angélica Varandas