Medievalisms in a Global Age

ANGELA JANE WEISL is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Seton Hall University. ROBERT SQUILLACE is a Clinical Professor in Arts, Text, and Media and Educational Technology Liaison at New York University's School of Liberal Studies. Matthias D. Berger holds a PhD in English from the University of Bern and is currently training to be a teacher. ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. ANDREW B.R. ELLIOTT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Lincoln. ROBERT SQUILLACE is a Clinical Professor in Arts, Text, and Media and Educational Technology Liaison at New York University's School of Liberal Studies. ANGELA JANE WEISL is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Seton Hall University.

Introduction: Medievalisms: Local Spaces and Global Geographies

Part I: Local Spaces
1. Metamorphosis Metamorphosed: Fox Daemon, (Anti-)Colonialism, and Global Medievalism in Ken Liu's 'Good Hunting' - Minjie Su
2. The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations - Elizabeth Allyn Woock
3. Mangaesque Knights: Japan's Path to Global Medievalism - Maxime Danesin & Manuel Hernández-Pérez
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Maurice Gee's The O Trilogy - Anna Czarnowus
5. Trading a Bow for a Machine Gun: Robin Hoods, Nationalism and the Personas of Philippine Politics - Stefanie Matabang
6. Tropical Templars? Medievalism and Pseudohistory in Brazil's Largest City - Luiz Guerra
7. Plague Temporality and Chronicle in Camus's La peste - Sara Torres
8. The Griot in Sunjata: A Paradigmatic Herald of an Afrofuturistic Messianic Age - Joseph Osei-Bonsu
9. Toward a Place-Based, North Pacific Medieval Studies: Medievalism, Pedagogy, Indigeneity - Daniel T. Kline

Part II: Global Geographies
10. Revolt: "Peasants" and Protest in the Twenty-First Century - Matthias D. Berger
11. "Taking a Step Back into the Thirteenth Century": Reading the Globe through a Medieval Lens: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Kara L. McShane
12. A Pinch of Flour, a Cup of Tall Tales, and one Khaleesi: Getting Medieval Across Time and Space - Meriem Pagès
13. The Boys Are Back in Town: Capital One's Propagandic Commercials for Alt-Right Nostalgic Imperialism - Carol Robinson
14. Memes, Covid-19, and Global Medievalism - Andrew B.R. Elliott
15. Dichotomies of Arthurian Medievalism: Dismantling and Reinforcing the Status Quo - Rachael Warmington
16. Thor versus Juracán: Premodern Storm Gods and Goddesses in Popular Culture - Marian E. Polhill
17. Geo-mapping the In-Betweens: Medieval Daoist Correlatives in Pokémon Go - Anne Giblin Gedacht
18. Worldbuilding Dungeons and Befriending Dragons: How the Global TTRPG Community Combats Western Hegemony - Miranda Hajduk
19. Marrying Medievalism, Post-Apocalypse, and the Global in Digital Games - Emily Price

List of Contributors
Index