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The Public Medievalist is where the Middle Ages meets the Modern World. It is a web-magazine featu Visit us at www.publicmedievalist.com

It is a web-magazine featuring articles on how the Middle Ages is relevant to today, including articles on politics, pop-culture, the heritage industry and more.

21/10/2022

psst... hey... want to know what the Vatican is REALLY hiding in its Secret Archives?

What lies in wait within the Vatican Secret Archives? All the medieval receipts for all the dirty Papal deeds you could ever need! Here's how to find them...

03/09/2022

So pleased to see that Christina Warmbrunn continues to get well-deserved good press from the great article she wrote for us! https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2068688963808

E-commerce giant Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings show is a billion dollar bet aimed at holding onto subscribers in an increasingly competitive streaming service environment.

28/02/2022

Some perspective on how Russian propaganda weaponizes medieval history: https://www.publicmedievalist.com/medievalism-russia-nevsky/

Vladimir Putin has been comparing COVID-19 to medieval steppe peoples. Why? It actually fits very well into a pattern of how Russian propaganda uses medieval history...

14/09/2021

The Green Knight is a complex film with many layers. One of the chief themes is about how "glorious" conquests quickly curdle, then and now.

A review by Sabina Rahman.

https://www.publicmedievalist.com/green-knight-after-conquest/

David Lowery's The Green Knight reveals a Camelot not in splendor, but as a post-conquest regime teetering on colonial collapse.

15/04/2021

Vladimir Putin recently made a speech comparing COVID-19 to medieval steppe people. Why? It's all part of a long-standing Russian mode of using the Middle Ages for propaganda, writes Eugene Smelyansky.

https://www.publicmedievalist.com/medievalism-russia-nevsky/

COVID-19 is a global problem, but the reactions to it have differed vastly from country to country. Like in many countries, the pandemic caused a nationwide shutdown in Russia. When addressing his nation about the virus, Vladimir Putin placed it among the ranks of Russia’s historic enemies he said...

01/04/2021

What's medievalism doing in an old-school sci-fi game about fighting robots? Geoffrey Elliott tells the story of Knight Man, in the latest in our games column.

https://www.publicmedievalist.com/medieval-robots-mega-man/

What's the classic sci-fi game Mega Man got to do with the Middle Ages and medievalism? A whole lot, actually!

18/03/2021

The "Barbarian" is one of the 12 core classes in Dungeons and Dragons. But you don't have to dig very far into it to see the anti-Indigenous racism baked right in.
https://www.publicmedievalist.com/dungeons-dragons-racism-barbarian/

Barbarians in Dungeons and Dragons' 5th edition blend two things: fascinating Viking history, and disgusting stereotypes of Native peoples.

18/02/2021

On January 22nd, 2021, we lost a great public medievalist. Sharon Kay Penman authored a huge number of well-researched and gripping medieval historical novels. Kavita Finn pays tribute to the author who inspired her.
https://www.publicmedievalist.com/in-memoriam-sharon-penman/

We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you're missing.

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