Medieval and Renaissance Drama on Film NeMLA CFP

Filming this Insubstantial Pageant: Medieval and Renaissance Drama on Film (Abstracts due Sept. 30)
full name / name of organization:
Northeast Modern Language Association (conference Mar. 2013)
contact email:
jackiec159@hotmail.com

This panel seeks papers about film adaptations of medieval and Renaissance English drama, both in English-speaking countries and around the world. The NeMLA conference will be held in Boston in March, 2013. Papers might compare different adaptations of the same play, discuss problems associated with the notion of fidelity to text or of relocating a play in a different historical or cultural milieu, or consider the effectiveness for use in scholarly work or in the classroom. We seek investigation of continuities across disciplines: medieval/Renaissance, cinema studies/literature. What is at stake in these adaptations? What do these directors, writers, performers, and audiences bring to the table? This panel should appeal to those interested in film and literary adaptation, world cinema and transnational influences, issues of cultural hegemony and exchange, and Shakespeare on film. Abstracts (250 words) should be emailed in MS format to jackiec159@hotmail.comandmorsed@newschool.edu by Sept. 30.

Corporate Medievalism Contents Update

Corporate Medievalism, volume 21 in the Studies in Medievalism series, has recently been released. An earlier post detailed the basics of the book, but now the contents (below) can be matched with their respective authors.


Contents
1 Editorial Notes (Karl Fugelso)
2 Lives of Total Dedication? Medieval and Modern Corporate Identity (M. J. Toswell)
3 Reincorporating the Medieval: Morality, Chivalry, and Honor in Post-Financial-Meltdown Corporate Revisionism (Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly)
4 Medievalism and Representations of Corporate Identity (KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Jil Hanifan)
5 Knights of the Ownership Society: Economic Inequality and Medievalist Film (Harry Brown)
6 A Corporate neo-Beowulf: Ready or Not, Here We Come (E. L. Risden)
7 Unsettled Accounts: Corporate Culture and George R.R. Martin's Fetish Medievalism (Lauryn S. Mayer)
8 Historicizing Neumatic Notation: Medieval Neumes as Cultural Artefacts of Early Modern Times (Eduardo Henrik Aubert)
9 Hereward the Dane and the English, but Not the Saxon: Kingsley's Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Michael R. Kightley)
10 From Romance to Ritual: Jessie L. Weston's Gawain (Helen Brookman)
11 The Cinematic Sign of the Grail (J. Rubén Valdés Miyares)
12 Destructive Dominae: Women and Vengeance in Medievalist Film (Felice Lifshitz)
13 Neomedievalism Unplugged (Pamela Clements and Carol L. Robinson)
14 Notes on Contributors

SyFy and Chiller Listings for March 2011

A notice to readers that this month's list (and future month's as well) of medieval-themed programming on the SyFy and Chiller networks will be featured on The Medieval Studies at the Movies Blog.

SyFy February 2011 Listings

The following represent this month's medieval-themed listings for SyFy. Of note, SyFy continues, after a one week hiatus, its run of season 3 of BB1's Merlin in February and reintroduces Invasion, which includes an underdeveloped Robin Hood theme. Also, Highlander: The Series airs haphazardly in various late-night slots.




THURS, 3 FEB
01:00 PM
Destination Truth--Issie/Icelandic Elves (details)


FRI, 4 FEB
09:30 AM
Movie--Merlin And The War Of The Dragons



10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3--Gwaine


SAT, 5 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3--Gwaine


MON, 7 FEB
10:30 AM
Movie--Dragon Sword
12:30 PM
Movie--Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God


THURS, 10 FEB
09:00 PM
Movie--Eragon



11:00 PM
Syfy Original Movie--Fire And Ice




FRI, 11 FEB
01:00 AM
Highlander--The Valkyrie
06:00 PM
Movie--Eragon
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3--The Crystal Cave


SAT, 12 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3--The Crystal Cave


WEDNES, 16 FEB
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie--Book Of Beasts, The




THURS, 17 FEB
03:00 AM
Movie--Bram Stoker's Way Of The Vampire (review)
01:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International--Frankenstein's Castle
02:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International (season 1.5)--Larnach Castle


FRI, 18 FEB
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3--The Changeling


SAT, 19 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3--The Changeling


SUN, 20 FEB
10:00 AM
Movie--Highlander: The Source
02:00 PM
Movie--In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Wikipedia)




TUES, 22 FEB
Feb 22
08:00 AM
Invasion(series)--Origin Of Species
09:00 AM
Invasion(series)--Us Or Them
10:00 AM
Invasion(series)--Power
11:00 AM
Invasion(series)--Redemption
12:00 PM
Invasion(series)--All God's Creatures


FRI, 25 FEB
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3--The Castle Of Fyrien


SAT, 26 FEB
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3--The Castle Of Fyrien
09:30 AM
Invasion(series)--Pilot


MON, 28 FEB
08:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie--Dark Relic (review)

Chiller January 2011 Listings

The following represent this month's medieval-themed listings for Chiller. Of note are 3 mini-marathons of Forever Knight and multiple airings of The Forsaken. Both feature vampires from the Middle Ages and their attempts to survive in the twentieth century.


MON., 3 JAN
09:00 AM
Forever Knight The Code
10:00 AM
Forever Knight Curiouser & Curiouser
11:00 AM
Forever Knight Near Death
12:00 PM
Forever Knight Baby Baby
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Close Call
02:00 PM
Forever Knight Crazy Love




FRI., 14 JAN
12:00 PM
Dark Realm Castle Keep


TUES., 18 JAN
08:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken


WEDNES., 19 JAN
12:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken



09:00 AM
Forever Knight Dark Knight
10:00 AM
Forever Knight Dark Knight: The Second Chapter
11:00 AM
Forever Knight For I Have Sinned
12:00 PM
Forever Knight Last Act
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Dance By The Light Of The Moon
02:00 PM
Forever Knight Dying To Know You


SUN., 23 JAN
09:00 AM
Special Cracking The Da Vinci Code
12:00 PM
Special Cracking The Da Vinci Code


THURS., 27 JAN
10:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken


FRI., 28 JAN
02:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken


SAT., 29 JAN
08:00 AM
Forever Knight False Witness
09:00 AM
Forever Knight Cherry Blossoms
10:00 AM
Forever Knight I Will Repay
11:00 AM
Forever Knight Dead Air
12:00 PM
Forever Knight Hunters
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Dead Issue


Also airing this month: Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Poltergeist: The Legacy.

SyFy Listings for January 2011

Here are the relevant listings for SyFy for January 2011. Note that the third season of BBC1's Merlin premieres this month.

SAT. 1 JAN
11:00 AM
The Twilight Zone -- A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain


WEDNES., 5 JAN
10:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International -- Witches Castle
09:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International, Season 2.9 -- Hamlet's Castle: Denmark
11:00 PM
Ghost Hunters International, Season 2.9 -- Hamlet's Castle: Denmark


THURS., 6 JAN
12:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International -- The Spirit Of Robin Hood


FRI., 7 JAN
08:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Beauty And The Beast - Part 1
09:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Beauty And The Beast - Part 2
10:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Witchfinder
11:30 AM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Sins Of The Father
12:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Lady Of The Lake
01:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  Sweet Dreams
02:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Witch's Quickening
03:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Fires Of Idirsholas
04:30 PM
Merlin, Season 2(series)  The Last Dragonlord
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 --  The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 1


SAT., 8 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 1
03:00 AM
Movie  -- Merlin And The War Of The Dragons


FRI., 14 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 2
11:00 PM
Stargate SG-1 -- Arthur's Mantle


SAT., 15 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- The Tears Of Uther Pendragon - Part 2
01:00 AM
Stargate SG-1 -- Crusade


SUN., 16 JAN
07:00 PM
Movie -- Underworld
09:30 PM
Movie -- Underworld: Evolution


MON., 17 JAN
4:30 PM
Movie -- Underworld
07:00 PM
Movie -- Underworld: Evolution


WEDNES., 19 JAN
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie -- Book Of Beasts, The


FRI., 21 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Goblin's Gold


SAT., 22 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Goblin's Gold
01:00 AM
Stargate SG-1 -- Camelot


SUN., 23 JAN
11:30 AM
Movie -- In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
02:00 PM
Movie -- Eragon


MON., 24 JAN
12:00 AM
Movie -- Highlander: The Source
10:00 AM
Movie -- Eragon


FRI., 28 JAN
10:00 PM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Gwaine


SAT., 29 JAN
12:00 AM
Merlin, Season 3 -- Gwaine
03:00 AM
Movie -- Rise Of The Gargoyles




Also airing this month: Highlander.

Thor Movie Trailer

Marvel has recently released the trailer for the upcoming Thor film. It can be viewed at The Medieval Comics Project Blog.

Coming Soon from McFarland: Harty's Vikings on Film

The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages 
Edited by Kevin J. Harty
ISBN 978-0-7864-6044-1
illustrations, filmography, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $38.00

Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2011

Description
Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century. Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted directors, including Richard Fleischer, Clive Donner and Terry Jones, have all lent their talents to Viking-related films. These fourteen essays on films dealing with the Viking era discuss American, British and European productions. Analyzed in detail are such films as The Vikings (1958), The Long Ships (1964), Alfred the Great (1969), Erik the Viking (1989) and Outlander (2008), as well as a pair of comic-strip adaptations, the live-action Prince Valiant (1997) and the animated Asterix and the Vikings (2006). A comprehensive filmography is also included.

About the Author
Kevin J. Harty is professor and chair of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia and associate editor of Arthuriana, the official journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, of which he is the vice president. He is the author or editor of eleven books on film and medieval studies.

Syfy December 2010 Listings

Here are this month's medieval-themed listings for Syfy:


MON, 6 DEC
09:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


THURS., 9 DEC
02:00 AM
Stargate SG-1
Avalon - Pt 1


FRI, 10 DEC
02:00 AM
Stargate SG-1
Avalon - Pt 2

09:00 AM
Movie
Merlin - Part One
11:00 AM
Movie
Merlin - Part Two


SUN, 12 DEC
06:00 PM
Movie
Eragon
08:00 PM
Movie
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian
11:00 PM
Movie
In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale


MON, 13 DEC
03:30 AM
Syfy Original Movie
Grendel

08:00 AM
Merlin
The Dragon's Call
09:00 AM
Merlin
Valiant
10:00 AM
Merlin
The Mark Of Nimueh
11:00 AM
Merlin
The Poison Chalice
12:00 PM
Merlin
Lancelot
01:00 PM
Merlin
A Remedy To Cure All Ills
02:00 PM
Merlin
The Gates Of Avalon
03:00 PM
Merlin
The Beginning Of The End


TUES, 14 DEC
08:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Do The Math
09:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Anonymous
10:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
Vanity, Thy Name Is Human
11:30 AM
Joan Of Arcadia
The Gift
12:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Silence
01:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Only Connect
02:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Out Of Sight
03:30 PM
Joan Of Arcadia
Back To The Garden


THURS, 16 DEC
11:30 PM
Movie
Highlander: The Source


FRI, 17 DEC
03:00 AM
Syfy Original Movie
Dragon Storm


WEDNES, 22 DEC
11:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International
The Spirit Of Robin Hood


THURS, 23 DEC
08:00 PM
Movie Marathon
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


FRI, 24 DEC
01:30 AM
Movie Marathon
Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


SUN, 26DEC
08:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


MON, 27 DEC
05:00 PM
Movie
National Treasure


Also airing: Highlander and Warehouse 13.

Chiller December 2010 Listings

Here are this month's medieval-themed offerings from Chiller:


THURS., 2 DEC
09:00 AM
Forever Knight Beyond The Law
10:00 AM
Forever Knight The Fix
11:00 AM
Forever Knight Be My Valentine
12:00 PM
Forever Knight The Fire Inside
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Blood Money
02:00 PM
Forever Knight Partners Of The Month


TUES, 14 DEC
11:00 AM
Dark Realm Castle Keep
10:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken [A vampire film featuring vampires that originate during the First Crusade. More details at Wikipedia.]


WEDNES, 15 DEC
02:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken


FRI, 17 DEC
06:00 AM
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot [Based on the short story be Roger Zelazny.]
03:00 PM
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot


SUN, 19 DEC
09:00 AM
Special Illuminating Angels And Demons
12:00 PM
Special Illuminating Angels And Demons


MON, 27 DEC
10:00 PM
Movie The Forsaken


TUES, 27 DEC
02:00 AM
Movie The Forsaken

CFP: Medieval Film/TV/Electronic Games (12/31/10; Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum 4/14-16/11)

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages invites paper proposals to round out a panel devoted to the topic of medievalism in film, TV, and/or electronic games for the 2011 Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum to be held at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, from 15-16 April 2011. Please submit paper proposals to the Conference Committee at Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com by 31 December 2010.

Michael A. Torregrossa

Co-Founder

Blog Moderator

Listserv Moderator

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Remaking the Middle Ages--New from McFarland

Here's another recent book from McFarland. My apologies for not posting on it sooner. (I'm usually the most current when it comes to movie medievalism, and I'm not sure when it first appeared in their online catalog, as it is not linked to their "Medieval Studies" list.) Its author, Andrew Elliott, was a presenter at our medieval TV panels in 2007 and does interesting work on filmic and televisual medievalisms, and, besides the book, he also has an essay on medieval themes in the Monk television series in the collection Monk and Philosophy (Open Court, 2010) and reviewed Martha Driver and Sid Ray's collection Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings for the next number of Arthuriana. In addition, Elliott has an essay on Asterix and the Vikings in Kevin J. Harty's forthcoming collection  Reel Vikings: Cinematic Depictions of Medieval Scandinavia.

Michael



Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World
Andrew B.R. Elliott

ISBN 978-0-7864-4624-7
glossary, notes, bibliography, filmography, index
286pp. softcover 2011
Price: $38.00

Description

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible. Carrying out this critical approach, the author analyzes a wide range of films depicting the Middle Ages, arguing that most of these films either reflect the past through a series of visual signs (a concept he has called "iconic recreation") or by comparing the past to a modern equivalent (called "paradigmatic representation").


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      ix
Preface      1

PART I : PROBLEMS
1. History, Historiography and Film      9
2. “One Big Medieval Mess”: Accessing the Middle Ages      35

PART II : PEOPLE
3. When Knights Were Bold: Those Who Fight      53
4. The Power and the Glory: Those Who Rule      83
5. Clergy and Saints: Those Who Pray      113
6. …Everybody Not Sitting on a Cushion: Those Who Work      146

PART III : WORLDS
7. Constructing Medieval Worlds: Conventions, Inventions and Images      177
8. Guides to the Medieval Worlds      192
9. Authenticity and Accuracy in Medieval Worlds      206

Glossary      223
Notes      229
Bibliography      257
Filmography      269
Index      273

About the Author
Andrew B.R. Elliott is a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Lincoln in the UK. He has published articles and essays on a wide range of topics and is a contributor to a television documentary on the "real" King Arthur.

Elizabeth I in Film and Television--Coming Soon from McFarland

Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals 
Bethany Latham

ISBN 978-0-7864-3718-4
photos, notes, filmography, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $45.00
Not Yet Published, Available Spring/Summer 2011

Description
This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience’s perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures and television miniseries. It appraises of the productions themselves and the actresses who have portrayed Elizabeth, among them Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, Judy Dench, Cate Blanchett and Helen Mirren, as well as Quentin Crisp’s cross-dressing appearance as the Queen in Orlando (1992). The text focuses on the historical context of the period in which each film or miniseries was made; the extent of the portrayals of Elizabeth; and how these representations have influenced the characterization of Elizabeth on film, as well as popular understanding of the historical Queen.

About the Author
Bethany Latham is an associate professor and electronic resources/documents librarian at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Her articles have appeared in such publications as Reference Reviews and Library Journal. She is managing editor of The Historical Novels Review.

New/Recent from Palgrave Macmillan

Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (NOW IN PAPERBACK) 
Richard Burt

Palgrave Macmillan, 12/21/2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10560-7, ISBN10: 0-230-10560-2
6 x 9 1/4 inches, 294 pages,
Trade Paperback $28.00
Hardcover $79.00

Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized.

Contents:

Introduction: Film Before and After New Media, Anec-notology, and the Philological Uncanny
The Medieval and Early Modern Cinematographosphere: De-composing Paratexts, Media Analogues, and the Living Dead Hands of Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, and New Historicism
The Passion of El Cid and the Circumfixion of Cinematic History: Stereotypology/Phantomimesis/Cryptomorphoses
Cutting and (Re)Running from the (Medieval) Middle East: The Return of the Film Epic and the Uncanny Mise-hors-scènes of Kingdom of Heaven’s Double DVDs
Le détour de Martin Guerre: “Anec-notes” of Historical Film Advisors, Archival Aberrations, and the Uncanny Subject of the Academic Paratext
Epilegomenon: Anec-Post-It-Note to Self: Freud, Greenblatt, and the New Historicist Uncanny

The Author:

Richard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture; Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship; and the editor of Shakespeare After Shakespeare; Shakespeare After Mass Media; and The Administration of Aesthetics. Burt also co-edited a special issue of Exemplaria on “Movie Medievalism” and held a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany from 1995–96.

Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters 
Clare Broome Saunders

Palgrave Macmillan, January 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-60793-4, ISBN10: 0-230-60793-4,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 244 pages,
 Hardcover $85.00

In a thoughtful and detailed study, Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism considers the ways in which women poets, biographers, and historians used medieval motifs and settings to enable them to comment on controversial contemporary issues. Broome Saunders’ illuminating discussion focuses on women working during the socio-political and religious upheaval of the nineteenth century and mines the poetry of Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; portrayals of Joan of Arc and Guinevere in art and literature; and non-fiction sources such as women’s letters and diaries during the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.

Contents:

Recasting the Courtly: Translations of Medieval Language and Form in the Nineteenth Century
“Though Females are Forbidden to Interfere in Politics”: War, Medievalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer
“It’s Strictly the Woman’s Part and Men Understand it So”: Romance, Gender and the Spectacle of the Crimean
The End of Chivalry?: Joan of Arc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer
Queenship, Chivalry and “Queenly” Women in the Age of Victoria
Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century
Re-reading Guinevere: Women Illustrators, Tennyson and Morris


The Author:

Clare Broome Saunders is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She has written on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louisa Stuart Costello, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and her work has appeared in Victorian Poetry.



Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Clare A. Simmons

Palgrave Macmillan, 2/1/2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-10374-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10374-X,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages, Includes: 5 pgs figs,
Hardcover $80.00

Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain examines ways in which British writers and readers used the idea of the Middle Ages to challenge contemporary political structures and to claim historical national rights at a time when fears that Britain would follow the example of the French Revolution caused the British government to undermine individual and collective rights.  Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study suggests that the imaginative appeal to the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages served as a powerful means of raising awareness of Britain’s past and the tradition of freedom.

Contents:

Rites and Rights: The Topography of Ancient British Law
The National Melody
Medievalism Onstage in the French Revolutionary Era
The Radical Bestiary
Buried Alive: Gothic Reading and Medievalist Subjectivity
Scottish Lawyers, Feudal Law

The Author:

Clare A. Simmons is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University.  She is the author of Reversing the Conquest: History and Myth in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Eyes Across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History, and British Writing 1830-1882; and numerous essays on nineteenth-century British literature. She is the co-editor of Prose Studies and has edited the essay collection Medievalism and the Quest for the “Real” Middle Ages and Charlotte Mary Yonge’s novel The Clever Woman of the Family.

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer   
The New Middle Ages
Mary Catherine Davidson

Palgrave Macmillan, December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-60297-7, ISBN10: 0-230-60297-5,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 224 pages,
Hardcover $90.00  

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer.  

Contents:

Introduction:  Monolingualism and Middle English Traditions of Contact and Conflict in the History of English Medievalism and Monolingualism
Hengist’s Tongue: A Medieval History of Middle English
"And in Latyn . . . a wordes fewe”: Contact and Medieval Conformity
Multilingual Writing and William Langland  Chaucer’s “Diversite”
Afterword: Postcolonialism and Chaucer’s English  

The Author:

Mary Catherine Davidson is Assistant Professor of English at Glendon College, York University.

Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art
The New Middle Ages
Edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, and John K. Downey

Palgrave Macmillan, July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-60286-1, ISBN10: 0-230-60286-X,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages,
Hardcover $89.95

Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art demonstrates that remembering Saint Francis of Assisi should take place on many levels. The authors in this collection of essays use the tools of various intellectual disciplines to examine what we now know about Saint Francis in his own era and how the story of Il Poverello has been appropriated in our own times. This critical re-discovery of the artistic and textual narratives of Francis of Assisi contributes to our cultural memory by reflecting on the continuities and changes in the way Francis is understood.  

Contents:

PART I: Francis in Medieval Text and Painting
Franciscan Spirituality and Narrative at Assisi: The Legend of St. Francis in Text and Painting--Beth Mulvaney
The Miraculous Moment: Expressing the Spiritual Experience in Thirteenth-Century Frescos at Assisi--Janet Snyder
Francis Preaching to the Sultan: Art in the Hagiography of a Saint--Mahmood Ibrahim  

PART II: Franciscan Devotion
The Wolf in the Forest: St. Francis and the Italian Eremitical Tradition--Rodger Payne
What Has Paris to Do with Assisi? The Theological Creation of a Saint--John V. Apczynski  
Franciscans in the World--Felix Heap and Jesus Gonzales
The Visual Piety of the Sacro Monte di Orta--Cynthia Ho  

PART III: Francis Remembered in New Contexts
A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint François d’Assise--John McClain
Constructing Saint Francis for the Twenty-first Century--Janet McCann
Capturing the Gravity and Grace of St. Francis of Assisi on Stage: A Study of Divine Reciprocity--John Bowers
St. Francis in the Twenty-first Century--John Hart
Canticle of Memory: Political Theology and Francis of Assisi--John Downey  

The Authors:

Cynthia Ho is Professor of Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. Previously, she served as Chair of the Literature and Language Department and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair for the Humanities. She recently edited Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Heian Japanese and Medieval European Women.

Beth A. Mulvaney is Professor of Art at Meredith College where she is Director of the Honors Program. She has written on the frescoes of St. Francis at San Francesco, Assisi and the artists Duccio and Giotto.

John K. Downey is Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University and a former Director of the Coolidge Research Colloquium. He is co-editor of Missing God? Cultural Amnesia and Political Theology.

Help identifying a still

I am trying to identify another still and welcome your help. I know the image is from a version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame but not WHICH one. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Michael Torregrossa

New/Recent Arthurian Films

A reminder that updates on Arthurian films, including this week's telefilm Avalon High, can be found on the Are You From Camelot? Blog.

SyFy November 2010

The following represent this month's medieval-themed listings from SyFy. As always, the complete schedule for the month can be found at http://www.syfy.com/schedule/index.php.



TUES, NOV 9

06:00 PM
Stargate SG-1
Thor's Chariot


WEDNES, NOV 17

01:00 AM
Movie
Merlin's Apprentice - Part One
03:00 AM
Movie
Merlin's Apprentice - Part Two


FRI, NOV 26

08:00 AM
Movie Marathon
Highlander: The Source


SUN, NOV 28

09:00 PM
Movie Marathon
Eragon


MON, NOV 29

01:00 AM
Movie Marathon: Syfy Original Movie
Fire And Ice
03:00 AM
Movie Marathon: Syfy Original Movie
Dragon Storm


Also airing Highlander.

Chiller November 2010

The following represent this month's medieval-themed listings for Chiller. My apologies for the delay in posting, there was a bug on the schedule page.

Complete month's schedule at http://www.chillertv.com/schedule/.

SUN, NOV 14

08:00 AM
Supernatural Sciences King Arthur
09:00 AM
Special Cracking The Da Vinci Code
11:00 AM
Supernatural Sciences King Arthur
12:00 PM
Special Cracking The Da Vinci Code


MON, NOV 22

09:00 AM
Forever Knight Father's Day
10:00 AM
Forever Knight Undue Process
11:00 AM
Forever Knight Bad Blood
12:00 PM
Forever Knight Can't Run, Can't Hide
01:00 PM
Forever Knight Capital Offense
02:00 PM
Forever Knight Amateur Night


WEDNES, NOV 24

10:00 PM
Vampire Week Dracula's Curse (2006)



THURS, NOV 25

02:30 AM
Vampire Week Dracula's Curse (2006)



Also airing this month: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Poltergeist: The Legacy.

SyFy October 2010 Listings

Here are the this month's relevant listings for SyFy. The complete month can be accessed at http://www.syfy.com/schedule/index.php?__source=Syfy_Global_Nav.

FRI, 1 OCT

09:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Dark Prince: The True Story Of Dracula


SAT, 9 OCT
05:00 PM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Thor: Hammer Of The Gods


SUN, 10 OCT
03:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Rock Monster


MON, 11 OCT
03:30 AM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Beowulf (1999)


FRI, 15 OCT
08:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Dark Relic
10:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Grendel
12:00 PM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Beowulf (1999)


TUES, 19 OCT
11:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Dracula 3000: Infinite Darkness


WEDNES, 20 OCT
01:00 PM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Rise Of The Gargoyles
03:00 PM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Reign Of The Gargoyles


TUES., 26 OCT
01:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween: Syfy Original Movie
Reign Of The Gargoyles


WEDNES, 27 OCT
8:00 AM
Ghost Hunters International
The Spirit Of Robin Hood
01:00 PM
Ghost Hunters
New Hampshire Gothic


FRI, 29 OCT
03:00 AM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 3: Legacy


SAT, 30 OCT
06:30 PM
31 Days Of Halloween Movie
Underworld

Upcoming Movies

Here are the trailers for two upcoming films the fantasy film Sucker Punch and Tangled, Disney's take on Rapunzel.