We all knew that this would happen, that it was just a matter of time. For the first time in 54 years, there won't be an International Congress on Medieval S...

Please find Máire Johnson's review of: Roy Flechner, Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint. Oxford: Princeton University Pre...

Great essay that answers this question: Access it HERE

Oxford Brookes University, 16th-17th July 2020. It has been 37 years since Umberto Eco wrote Travels in Hyperreality. Gazing at the ‘postmodern neomedieval M...

Someone who had more impact on medievalism than five dozen academics just left us. "Terry Jones, founder member of Monty Python and director of three of Pyth...

A very informative article in NATURE about how specialists in medieval architecture, building construction, and many other areas collaborate on what will hap...

Looks like it's materializing in 2020, after some delays. Congrats to the editors, Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner. My own essay is on "Chaucer among the Vi...

An initiative that will help current and future students learn more about faculty and administrators. Happy they picked a Game of Thrones scene for my turn.

Looking forward to discussing the post-Charlottesville state of the field in person rather than in various deindividuated social media formats. At the Southe...

Originally published, with illustrations, in Medievally Speaking, October 31, 2019. Adventures in Anglalond: Angles, Saxons, and Academics On July 4, 1776, t...

Published with The Medieval Review, October 29, 2019. Ziolkowski, Jan M. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. 6 volumes. Cambridge, ...

KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, former Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and now Affiliated Researcher in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, pub...

As a way to preserve a record of the program for the 34th International Conference on Medievalism, I am reposting it here: GLOBAL MEDIEVALISMS 34th Internati...

Today, we had Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra in my undergraduate/graduate class on Game of Thrones & Global Media. He is currently finishing his Master's thesis...

Writing definitions of 'medievalism' has been part of my scholarly path for the last two decades. This time it's a special challenge, an entry for de Gruyte...

34th International Conference on Medievalism, GLOBAL MEDIEVALISMS, Georgia Tech, September 21, 2019

I personally don't think so, but here is another article, this time in the Chronicle, that describes what the journalist perceives to be the situation. I was...

Although we have received a good number of abstracts for sessions and individual papers, we have enough time to extend the CFP until July 20. Therefore, plea...

CALL FOR PAPERS STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXIX: POLITICAL MEDIEVALISM From Hitler’s“Third Reich”to Bush’s “crusade”against terrorism, professional politicians...