Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy

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. HANS RUDOLF VELTEN is a Professor of medieval German language and literature at the University of Siegen. HELEN YOUNG is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia where they hold an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. 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. HANS RUDOLF VELTEN is a Professor of medieval German language and literature at the University of Siegen. HELEN YOUNG is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia where they hold an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. MINJIE SU is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo.

• Introduction: Popularising the Middle AgesCarolyne Larrington, Hans Rudolf Velten, Helen Young Part I: Neomedieval Fantasy in the Twenty-First CenturyWorldbuilding in Fantasy: A Neomedieval Grammar - Hans Rudolf VeltenAdventure, Quest, Politics and Gender in Fantasy Literature: On the Popularisation of Medieval Narrative Structures and Their Transformations - Theresa Specht'The Childbed is our Battlefield'. Female Agency in House of the Dragon - Charlotte Braun / Lukas SchrageThe Hero We Deserve: The Image of Dark Knight as Anti-Utopia in Kentaro Miura's Manga Berserk - Minjie SuPart II: Contemporary Medievalist Video Games'Step inside the Middle Ages': Four Decades of Medievalism in Video Games with Historical Settings - Angela Schwarz The Middle Ages Never End: Fantasy, History, Digital Games and Early Modernity - Tobias WinnerlingThe Gritty Middle Ages as a Place of Longing and Demarcation: Gamers' Reception of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) - Tom PinskerPart III: The Vikings Across Different Media'Pray like a Viking!' Popularising Norse Mythology and Religion in Video Games with Historical Settings: The Case of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (2020) - Milan WeberFantasies of Vinland. Popularising Medieval History - Helen YoungRobert Eggers' The Northman: Imagining and Marketing Vikings in Popular (Anglo-American) Culture - Carolyne LarringtonBibliographyIndex