Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. I Essays on Politics and Medievalism (Studies)
7. Historical Malapropism and the Medieval Blood Libel in American Politics 3
8. Putin’s Medieval Weapons in the War against Ukraine 13
9. The Battle of Tours and the US Southern Border 21
10. Medievalism, Brexit, and the Myth of Nations 31
11. An Arthur for the Brexit Era: Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would Be King 39
12. II Other Responses to Medievalism
13. Angle-ing for Arthur: Erasing the Welsh in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 49
14. Chasing Freyja: Rape, Immigration, and the Medieval in Alt-Right Discourse 67
15. “Things painted on the coarse canvas”: Political Polemic in Jean-Paul Laurens’s Portrait of the Child Emperor Honorius 83
16. Longfellow and Old English 99
17. Archaeology and Medievalism at Julian of Norwich’s Anchorite Cell 123
18. A Revelation of Love: Christianity, Julian of Norwich, and Medieval Pity in the Harry Potter Series 155
19. In the Beginning Was the Word: How Medieval Text Became Fantasy Maps 183
20. Objectivity, Impossibility, and Laughter in Doctor Who’s “Robot of Sherwood” 201
21. Sonic Medievalism, World Building, and Cultural Identity in Fantasy Video Games 217
22. Contributors 239