“Boy, what do those runes say?”: Runic Play in Norse-Themed Digital Games

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. I: Medievalism in Play
6. Sexual Play and Medievalism: Alice Munro’s “The Beggar Maid 1
7. Spoiling the Sport, Upping the Ante, and Calling His Bluff: Why St. Winifred Appears in David Lowery’s 2021 Film The Green Knight 11
8. “My guise doth not incur thy trust”: Translating English Medievalism and Archaism to and from Japanese in a Video Game Context 21
9. “Boy, what do those runes say?”: Runic Play in Norse-Themed Digital Games 31
10. Middle (Ages) Managers: Crusader Kings III as Medievalist Managerialism 51
11. “Castles are like possessions: merely temporary!”: Neomedieval Architectural Praxis in Stronghold: Crusader II 73
12. II: Other Responses to Medievalism
13. George R. R. Martin’s “Muscular Medievalism” in A Game of Thrones: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy 95
14. Big Sword-in-the-Stone Energy: Queering the Arthurian Romance Pattern in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 115
15. Interspecies Embodiment of Dis/Ability in How to Train Your Dragon 131
16. Fenian Medievalisms, from Imperialist to Insurrectionist: Reimagining the Fenian Cycle and the Future of Ireland, 1878–1916 149
17. Medievalism and the Old South: Metaphors and References in the Works of Poets of the Confederacy 171
18. From Holy Lance to Covid-19 Syringe: Benjamin Netanyahu as Curator and Saint 195
19. Contributors 217