detangling MEDIEVALISM
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alexander, Michael. Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. Yale University Press, 2007.
Bertarelli, Maria Eugênia, and Clinio Oliveira Amaral. “Long Middle Ages or Appropriations of the Medieval? : A Reflection on How to Decolonize the Middle Ages through the Theory of Medievalism.” História Da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography 13, no. 33 (2020): 33. https://doi.org/10.15848/hh.v13i33.1555.
Cramer, Michael A. Medieval Fantasy as Performance : The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
D’Arcens, Louise, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism. Cambridge Companions to Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
especially:
Kline, Daniel T. “Participatory Medievalism, Role-Playing, and Digital Gaming.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism, edited by Louise D’Arcens. Cambridge Companions to Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. Duke University Press, 2012.
Eco, Umberto. “The Return of the Middle Ages,” In Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality. Vintage, 1998.
Fimi, Dimitra. “The Past as an Imaginary World: The Case of Medievalism.” In Revisiting Imaginary Worlds. Routledge, 2016.
Grollemond, Larisa, and Bryan C. Keene. The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds. Getty Publications, 2022.
Harper’s BAZAAR. “Bardcore, Castlecore e Neo-Medievalismo per La Moda 2025.” January 20, 2025. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/it/moda/tendenze/a63445678/tendenza-medievale-inverno-2025/.
Heng, Geraldine. Empire of Magic. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Matthews, David. “In Search of Lost Feeling: The Emotional History of Medievalism.” Exemplaria 30, no. 3 (2018): 207–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10412573.2018.1464812.
Matthews, David. Medievalism: A Critical History. Boydell & Brewer, 2015.
National Geographic. “Why Are We so Obsessed with the Medieval Right Now?” November 7, 2025. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/dirtbag-medievalism-culture.
Pugh, Tison, and Angela Weisl. Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present. Routledge, 2012.
Pugh, Tison, and Susan Lynn Aronstein. The Disney Middle Ages : A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Simmons, Clare A. Medievalism and the Quest for the “Real” Middle Ages. F. Cass, 2001.
Weisl, Angela Jane, Robert Squillace, Matthias D. Berger, et al. Medievalisms in a Global Age. Boydell & Brewer, Ltd, 2024.