A long time ago, in a world almost, but not quite, like our own… The city-state of Castamont, a centre of scholarship and commerce on the shores of the scenic Ousarine Bay, is buzzing with excitement! An anonymous knight, an armour-clad Mystery Knight who never removes his full-faced helmet, has arrived to joust in this […] The post Sir Charlotte, <i>la bonne chevalière</i>: Playing with Gender in The Knight & the Maiden appeared first on Historical Games Network.| Historical Games Network
The world of FromSoftware’s 2022 RPG Elden Ring is not governed by strictly realistic systems. Death has been abducted, the flow of time eddies around levitating islands, and Patches has been inexplicably reincarnated for a fourth time. Yet despite this, the game works within its own system of dream logic, focusing primarily on the relationships […] The post “Let us be shattered, both… Mine other self”: Elden Ring’s Alchemical Explorations of Gender appeared first on Historical Ga...| Historical Games Network
The medieval period offers an opportunity to think about gender through its popular stories and use of arms and armour to construct the bodily identity of those involved in combat roles. This blog post examines how these themes are brought to life through medievalism and fantasy in video games. The blog aims to introduce three […]| Historical Games Network
Publisher DetailsTable of Contents Publisher Details Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024) Pages: 386Bibliographic Info: 73 photos, notes, bibliography, index Purchase: McFarland | Amazon This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films […]| Scott Manning
This page builds on my essay published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018) titled “Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular Culture” (open access!). The basic thesis is that the image of a living warrior covered in arrows was once relegated to medieval chronicles on the Crusades, […]| Scott Manning
In a paper published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism, I followed the trend of depicting living armored warriors covered with arrows from medieval chronicles to Samurai films to comic books. The i…| Scott Manning