Meriem Pagès is an associate professor of English and director of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. Karolyn Kinane is associate director of pedagogy and faculty engagement at the University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. She researches and teaches on many aspects of contemplative inquiry including approaches to reading, writing, teaching, and learning.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Television Medievalisms (Meriem Pagès and Karolyn Kinane)Part 1. Personal and Political DesiresThe Most Dangerous Sport in History Is About to Be Reborn: Medievalism and Violence in Full Metal Jousting (Angela Jane Weisl)Joan of Arcadia: A Modern Maiden on Trial (Stephanie L. Coker)William Webbe’s Wench: Henry VIII, History and Popular Culture (Shannon McSheffrey)Nature and Adventure in Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen (Evan Torner)Part 2. Narrative and GenreEpisodic Arthur: Merlin, Camelot and the Visual Modernization of the Medieval Literary Romance Tradition (Melissa Ridley Elmes)Are You Kidding? King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (Sandy Feinstein)Part 3. Gender and SexualityTelevision’s Male Gaze: The Male Perspective in TNT’s Mists of Avalon (Michael W. George)Gendering Morals, Magic and Medievalism in the BBC’s Merlin (Elysse T. Meredith)Ne cherchez pas la femme: The Women of Kaamelott (Tara Foster)Homosexuality in Television Medievalism (Torben R. Gebhardt)About the ContributorsIndex