Studies in Medievalism XXXIV

Tribal Medievalisms

Contributions by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Ann Howey, Anna Steppler, Christopher Queen, Dana Polanichka, Emma Nuding, James Burns, Kalina Janeva, Kevin J Harty, Ryan Hellenbrand, Scott Manning, Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun Edited by Karl Fugelso

Publication date:

11 March 2025

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

D.S.Brewer

Dimensions:

234x156mm

ISBN-13: 9781805435631

The themes of tribalism and medievalism unite this wide-ranging collection of essays.

Essays address queer medievalisms in and around Gwen Lally's historical pageants and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness; Robert Glück's 1994 novel Margery Kempe; and forms of gender tribalism in and around Josephine Butler's Catharine of Siena: A Biography. Gender is further explored alongside the central theme, with surveys of tribal gendering of masculinity in C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian and its film; tribalism in medievalist bandits beyond Robin Hood and his "merry" band; and tribal gendering of femininity in the films Brave and Sleeping Beauty. There are also contributions on colonialist tribalism in the staging of Camelot in Richard E. Grant's film Wah-Wah; nationalistic tribalism in German pride, refracted through American frontier attitudes towards Native Americans; tribal perspectives of Native Americans in Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry; the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie as an act that stirs fans' tribal passions; and Carolingian legends as both reflecting and superseding tribal affiliations in twentieth-century America.

Preface - Karl Fugelso

1. "Hair Cut Short like a Mediæval Page": Queer Medievalisms in Gwen Lally's Historical Pageants and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) - Emma Nuding
2. "I thought I would be a Chaucerian": Robert Glück, the Medievalism of New Narrative, and Margery Kempe - Christopher Queen
3. "I Will Send to Them Women": Josephine Butler's Catharine of Siena: A Biography (1878), Female Food Abstinence, and Victorian Feminist Medievalism - Kalina Janeva
4. "Noble Maiden Fair": Music and the Construction of Gender in Disney/Pixar's Brave and Disney's Sleeping Beauty - Anna Steppler
5. Becoming a Man in Narnia: Adaptation, Medievalism, and Masculinity in Prince Caspian - Ann F. Howey
6. "Where Men Lived After the Manner of Beasts": Bandits in Medieval Worlds - James Robert Burns
The Musical Camelot and Colonial Medieval Tribalism in Richard E. Grant's 2005 Film Wah-Wah - Kevin J. Harty
7. Narratives of Belonging: Arminius and Autochthony between the Minnesota Prairie and German Forests - Ryan Hellenbrand and Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
8. King Arthur and Imagined Indians: The Entanglement of Medievalist and Indigenous Elements in Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry - Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
9. Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986) - Scott Manning
10. Laughing at a Carolingian Legacy: Medievalism and Charlemagne Legends in Twentieth-Century America - Dana M. Polanichka

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