Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: The Medievalism of Popular Culture   David W. Marshall     1
Chaucer for a New Millennium: The BBC Canterbury Tales   Kevin J. Harty     13
"If I Lay My Hands on the Grail": Arthurianism and Progressive Rock   Paul Hardwick     28
The Sound of Silents: Aurality and Medievalism in Benjamin Christensen's Haxan   Alison Tara Walker     42
Antichrist Superstars: The Vikings in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal   Simon Trafford   Aleks Pluskowski     57
The Future Is What It Used to Be: Medieval Prophecy and Popular Culture   Stephen Yandell     74
Idealized Images of Wales in the Fiction of Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters   Lesley Jacobs     90
Places Don't Have to Be True to Be True: The Appropriation of King Arthur and the Cultural Value of Tourist Sites   Benjamin Earl     102
"Accident My Codlings": Sitcom, Cinema and the Re-writing of History in The Blackadder   Katherine J. Lewis     113
Medieval History and Cultural Forgetting: Oppositional Ethnography in The Templar Revelation   Hannah R. Johnson     126
Teaching the Middle Ages   Carl James Grindley     140
Virtually Medieval: The Age of Kings Interprets the Middle Ages   Daniel T.Kline     154
A World unto Itself: Autopoietic Systems and Secondary Worlds in Dungeons & Dragons   David W. Marshall     171
Anything Different Is Good: Incremental Repetition, Courtly Love, and Purgatory in Groundhog Day   William Racicot     186
About the Contributors     199
Index     201