The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. I: (En)gendering Medievalism
7. The Peacock Television Network’s Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail 1
8. Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones 11
9. Capital One’s Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials 21
10. The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities 29
11. II: Other Responses to Medievalism
12. Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain 39
13. Seaxy Beast: Grendel’s Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in Beowulf Adaptations 57
14. Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender, and Self-Acceptance in the Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi 83
15. Exalted by Honour: Women’s Medievalist History Plays in the Late Eighteenth Century 97
16. A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 119
17. The “Old Frisian” Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland’s Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century 145
18. Neither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum 169
19. Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One 187
20. Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife 201
21. The Smith, the Devil, and Jim Crow: Medieval Hagiography, Victorian Popular Culture, and the Legacy of Slavery in Edward G. Flight’s The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil 217
22. Contributors 247
23. Previously Published Volumes 251