International Medievalisms

MARY BOYLE is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. MARY BOYLE is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Florian Gassner received his PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of British Columbia; followed by lectureship at Mount Allison University, postdoctoral fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest, and DAAD-Lektorat at the Donetsk National University. He is Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. Matthias D. Berger holds a PhD in English from the University of Bern and is currently training to be a teacher.

• List of Illustrations List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Mary BoyleI. Internationally Nationalist1. Making up the Middle Ages: Roman Scotland and Medievalism in the Eighteenth Century, Kristina Hildebrand2. Emma Letherbrow's Gudrun: Kudrun for 'Modern' Victorians, Mary Boyle3. Nationalism and Colonialism: The Early German Reception of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, Florian Gassner4. Inhabiting an Unpredictable Past - the Paradoxes of Russian Cultural Historicism, Michael MakinII. Someone Else's Past?5. The Medievalism of Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly, Sabina Rahman6. 'The Northland of Old': The Use and 'Misuse' of (Medieval) Iceland, Hannah Armstrong7. 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go': A Discourse of the Troubadour in British and Irish Literature, Kayleigh Ferguson8. 'The old magic of the mind': the Influence of Wales and Medieval Welsh Literature in John Cowper Powys's, Maiden Castle, Felix TaylorIII. Activist Medievalism9. 'Green Growing Pains': the 'Green Children of Woolpit' and Child Refugees, Carolyne Larrington10. Medievalisms of Welcome: Medieval Englishness and the Nation's Migrant Other in Refugee Tales, Matthias D. Berger11. Nordic Giants: Using Left-Wing Post-Rock to Deepen Our Understandings of White Supremacist Interpretations of Vikings, Eirnin Jefford Franks12. 'The Great Original Suffragist': Joan of Arc as a Symbol in the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement, Suzanne LaVereIndex

International Medievalism is a very approachable collection that would work well in the undergraduate classroom and that provides medieval studies students and their instructors helpful avenues of inquiry. The subject matter allows for an easy introduction to medievalism and medieval studies, and the essays easily assigned to support work across multiple disciplines. The volume would be of particular interest to those teaching medievalism and popular culture, or those teaching or studying contemporary medievalist games and media, particularly in terms of the political work that media promotes and supports (purposely or inadvertently).