Forthcoming: MEMO's Collection of Essays!

Carol L. Robinson (Editor) Pamela Clements (Associate Editor)
Tentatively Title: The Medieval in Motion: Neomedievalism in Film, Television and Digital Games
Currently under review.

Preface: A Moveable Feast: Repositionings of 'The Medieval' in Medieval Studies, Medievalism, and Neomedievalism
(Richard Utz)

Introduction: Neomedievalism in a Vortext of Discourse: Film, Television and Digital Games
(Carol L. Robinson)

1. Remembering, Dismembering: Violating the Body in Film and Text
(Lesley Coote)

2. Neomedieval Trauma: The Cinematic Hyperreality of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
(Pamela Clements)

3. The Use of Nature: Representing Religion in Medieval Film
(Christopher Roman)

4. Neo-Bushido: Neomedieval Animé and Japanese Essence
(Jennifer deWinter)

5. "You're Still Living in the Middle Ages!": Time Travel in Doctor Who and Psuedo-Historical, Neomedieval, Alternate Realities
(Dave Rolinson)

6. "What Do We Do? Hop on a Bus to Medieval Times?": The Use of Medievalism in Television Fiction
(Roderick W. McDonald)

7. "What's in Your Wallet?': How to Construct an "Authentic" Middle Ages
(Alison Tara Walker)

8. The New Scriptoria: Neomedievalism and Online Textual Communities
(Lauryn S. Mayer)

9. Gaming with Odin: Myth, Context and Reconstruction of Hnefa-tafl, an Old Norse Board Game
(Leon Wild)

10. The Name of the Game: Misuses of Neomedievalism in Computerized Role Playing Games
(Clay Smith)

11. Commodifying the Medieval in Magic Online
(KellyAnn Fitzpatrick)

12. Blood Will Out: Genealogy as Destiny in Medieval(ist) Gaming
(Amy S. Kaufman & Cory Grewell)

13. "For Your Labor I Will Give You Treasure Enough": Labor and the Third-Estate in Medieval-Themed Role-Playing Games
(Kevin A. Moberly & Brent Addison Moberly)

14. Neo-Tolkienism: Plays Upon Playing With Tolkien's Playing with Language
(Carol L. Robinson & Pamela Clements)

15. "I'm Not Dead, Yet!"-- The Pythonesque in Neomedieval Media
(Carol L. Robinson)

Epilogue: Re-creating the Medieval World
(Terry Jones)

 

The following are publications that
directly relate to the focus of this organization,
by active members of this organization.

Defining Neomedievalism(s) II: Some More Perspectives
Studies in Medievalism XX: Defining Neomedievalism(s) II
Edited by Karl Fugelso
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011
~~ "Baphomet Incorporated, A Case Study in Neomedievalism" (Harry Brown)
~~ "[Re]producing [Neo]medievalsm" (KellyAnn Fitzpatrick)

Defining Neomedievalism(s): Some Perspective(s)
Studies in Medievalism XIX: Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Edited by Karl Fugelso
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010
~~ "Medieval Unmoored" (Amy S. Kaufman)
~~ "Neomedievalism, Hyperrealism, and Simulation" (Brent Moberly and Kevin Moberly)
~~ "A Short essay about Neomedievalism" (Lesley Coote)
~~ "Neomedievalism: An Eleventh Little Middle Ages?" (Cory Lowell Grewell)
~~ "Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s)" (Lauryn S. Mayer)

Defining Medievalism(s) II: Some More Perspective(s)
Studies in Medievalim XVIII: Defining Medievalism(s) II
Edited by Karl Fugelso
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009
~~ "Medievalitas Fugit: Medievalism and Temporality" (Richard Utz)
~~ "Living with Neomedievalism" (Carol L. Robinson & Pamela Clements)

Medievalism in Video Games
Studies in Medievalism XVI: Medievalism in Technology Old and New
Edited by Karl Fugelso with Carol L. Robinson
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008
~~ "An Introduction to Medievalist Video Games" (Carol L. Robinson)
~~ "Medieval and Psuedo-Medieval Elements in Computer RolePlaying Games: Use and Interactivity" (Oliver M. Traxel)
~~ "Romancing the Game: Magic, Writing, and the Feminine in Neverwinter Nights" (Amy S. Kaufman)
~~ "Revising the Future: The Medieval Self and the Sovereign Ethics of Empire in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic"(Brent Moberly and Kevin Moberly)
~~ "Promises of Monsters: The Rethinking of Gender in MMORPGs" (Lauryn S. Mayer)