Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction: Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games 1
5. Part I: The Educational Impact of Games
6. 2 Learning About the Past Through Digital Play: History Students and Video Games 29
7. Part II: Teaching through Commercial Games
8. 3 Historicising Assassin’s Creed (2007): Crusader Medievalism, Historiography, and Digital Games for the Classroom 47
9. 4 Declaiming Dragons: Empathy Learning and The Elder Scrolls in Teaching Medieval Rhetorical Schemes 69
10. 5 “What if you are a Medieval Monarch?”: A Crusader Kings III Experience to Learn Medieval History 87
11. Part III: Creating Educational Games
12. 6 A Video Game for Byzantine History – Akritas: Playing at the Byzantine Borders 113
13. 7 Collaborative Constructions: Designing High School History Curriculum with the Lost & Found Game Series 131
14. 8 The Renaissance Marriage Game: A Simulation Game for Large Classes 155
15. Part IV: User Modification as Learning Practice
16. 9 Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim 175
17. 10 Playing the Investiture Contest: Modding as Historical Debate in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Classroom 201
18. 11 Game Development in a Senior Seminar 229
19. Part V: Games beyond the Classroom
20. 12 The Soundscapes of the York Mystery Plays: Playing with Medieval Sonic Histories 249
21. 13 Beyond Education and Impact: Games as Research Tools and Outputs 279
22. List of Contributors 299
23. Index 303