When Medieval May Be More Modern Than Tudor
Many migrants know the experience of returning to your homeplace after months or years away and being struck by some change, large or small, that’s …
Medievalism
Marie Was Never a Nuisance
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in March 2019, in response to a meme which was being widely linked to …
The Myth of Marguerite de Bressieux
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in October 2017, in response to this post on the Rejected Princesses site which …
Entering the Matrix
Novelists have no particular obligation to the past—or at least, no requirement to recreate it with any kind of fidelity. Just as the makers of …
Teaching Abélard and Héloïse
One of 2018’s wearying inevitabilities is that even the most cursory glance at the news is likely to bring you a fresh tale of sexual …
Twisted Sisters
Sex sells, particularly when it comes with a side order of subversion. It’s no surprise, then, to find that recently released The Nun (2018) has …
The Met, Medieval Catholicism, and the Popular Imagination
The steps leading up to the front entrance of the Metropolitan Museum in New York are always busy, but are probably rarely so photographed as …
The Lioness in Winter: Thinking About A Medieval Woman on Film
This month, many people trekked across a snowy campus to take in the first instalment of this semester’s Alan Lutkus International Film Series: the iconic …
The Medieval Turkey? Or, Why Vikings Didn’t Celebrate Thanksgiving
What do Renaissance Faires and Thanksgiving have in common? Well, both are occasions when you’re likely to see people chowing down on turkey legs. That …
George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?
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