Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

Preface - Karl Fugelso

I: (En)gendering Medievalism
The Peacock Television Network's Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail - Kevin J. Harty
Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones - Lauryn Mayer
Capital One's Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials - Carol L. Robinson
The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities - H. Peter Johnsson

II: Other Responses to Medievalism
Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain - Carol Jamison
Seaxy Beast: Grendel's Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in Beowulf Adaptations - Alison Elizabeth Killilea
Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender and Self-Acceptance in the Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi - Lisa Myers
Exalted by Honour: Women's Medievalist History Plays in the Late-Eighteenth Century - Kirsten Ogilby
A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Robert Houghton
The "Old Frisian" Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland's Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century - Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. and Philippus Breuker
Neither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum - Christine Ekholst
Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram van Eschenbach's Parzival and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One - Chelsea Keane
Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Mere Wife - Mareike Huber
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 - Christina M. Heckman