Studies in Medievalism XXVII

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. CLARE A. SIMMONS is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. DAVID MATTHEWS is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies in the English Department at the University of Manchester. Matthias D. Berger holds a PhD in English from the University of Bern and is currently training to be a teacher.

• Introduction: Medievalism as Colony and Conqueror: Reflections after MAMO - David MatthewsGenealogies of the Early Gothic: Forging Authenticity - Nickolas HaydockThe Rituals of St. Agnes and the Lure of Authenticity - Clare A SimmonsMediating Medieval(ized) Emotions in Game of Thrones - Carolyne LarringtonA Princess of Color amid Whitewashed Medievalisms in Disney's Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor - Elan Justice (E J) PavlinichThe Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism and Constructs of Historical Authenticity - Timothy CurranThe Breaking Point: Alain de Benoist's Critique of Medieval Nominalism - Daniel Wollenberg"This Most Historic of Locations": Performing Authentic Nationhood at Hastings and Morgarten - Matthias BergerKingdoms of Infinite Space: Three Responses to the Kingis Quair - Lotte ReinboldVincent van Gogh, Dante, and the Studio of the South - Aida AudehSurrealist Medievalism: A Case Study - Tessel BauduinIntroduction to Part IIIBeyond (the) Halo: Chant in Video Games - Karen CookA Plague of Medievalism upon You All: Medievalism, Music, and the Plague - Adam WhittakerThe Past is a Different Planet: Sounding Medievalism in Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God - Alexander Kolassa

Many important and incisive observations are made in this volume, and there is much to stimulate and focus the mind of the scholar on reflexes of 'medieval' in the modern, but these chapters will be most effective if read within a grounded context of nuanced medieval studies, whence generalizing assumptions might be critiqued and challenged