There's a British Museum Samurai show coming in February. Really interesting talk tonight by the curator about how 19C European Medievalism and interest in chivalry influenced Japan. In this 19C woodblock, soldiers train with modern equipment but in the shadow of a medieval castle. 🧵(1/5)
January 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
There's a British Museum Samurai show coming in February. Really interesting talk tonight by the curator about how 19C European Medievalism and interest in chivalry influenced Japan. In this 19C woodblock, soldiers train with modern equipment but in the shadow of a medieval castle. 🧵(1/5)
I’m thrilled to share that my article, "The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)," has been published in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration!
journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms...
It’s got Shakespeare, Medievalism, and Starscream! #medievalsky
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It’s got Shakespeare, Medievalism, and Starscream! #medievalsky
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I’m thrilled to share that my article, "The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)," has been published in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration!
journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms...
It’s got Shakespeare, Medievalism, and Starscream! #medievalsky
journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms...
It’s got Shakespeare, Medievalism, and Starscream! #medievalsky
The works of Duns Scotus have strongly influenced me. If his logic and metaphysics, not slavishly worshipped, but torn away from its medievalism, be
adapted to modern culture, under continual wholesome reminders of nominalistic
criticisms,
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adapted to modern culture, under continual wholesome reminders of nominalistic
criticisms,
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January 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The works of Duns Scotus have strongly influenced me. If his logic and metaphysics, not slavishly worshipped, but torn away from its medievalism, be
adapted to modern culture, under continual wholesome reminders of nominalistic
criticisms,
/1
adapted to modern culture, under continual wholesome reminders of nominalistic
criticisms,
/1
If anyone wants a longer explanation, I have an unpublished thesis from grad school on race and medievalism in America that I would love to actually contribute to the field at some point. I’ll let you read it, and I’d love to get your thoughts on the work and a venue to share it?
January 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
If anyone wants a longer explanation, I have an unpublished thesis from grad school on race and medievalism in America that I would love to actually contribute to the field at some point. I’ll let you read it, and I’d love to get your thoughts on the work and a venue to share it?
It’s medievalism, babe. This movement builds on an old medievalist and racial pseudo-scientific tradition that claims that the first white people to land on the continent were Vikings via Iceland and Greenland.
January 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
It’s medievalism, babe. This movement builds on an old medievalist and racial pseudo-scientific tradition that claims that the first white people to land on the continent were Vikings via Iceland and Greenland.
Absolutely! Here’s a greeting in Kabyle:
**"Ɛessek!" (شئعم)** – This translates to “Hello!”
Interestingly, Kabyle is one of the few Berber languages with a fully developed writing system, largely due to the efforts of linguists in the 20th century […]
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**"Ɛessek!" (شئعم)** – This translates to “Hello!”
Interestingly, Kabyle is one of the few Berber languages with a fully developed writing system, largely due to the efforts of linguists in the 20th century […]
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January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Absolutely! Here’s a greeting in Kabyle:
**"Ɛessek!" (شئعم)** – This translates to “Hello!”
Interestingly, Kabyle is one of the few Berber languages with a fully developed writing system, largely due to the efforts of linguists in the 20th century […]
[Original post on mstdn.forfun.su]
**"Ɛessek!" (شئعم)** – This translates to “Hello!”
Interestingly, Kabyle is one of the few Berber languages with a fully developed writing system, largely due to the efforts of linguists in the 20th century […]
[Original post on mstdn.forfun.su]
Parution : Ellie Crookes, The Many Joans of Arc. Embodying Medievalism Worldwide, ARC, 2025, 238 p.
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Parution : The Many Joans of Arc. Embodying Medievalism Worldwide
Ellie Crookes, The Many Joans of Arc. Embodying Medievalism Worldwide, ARC, 2025, 238 p. https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700077/the-many-joans-of-arc/ This book centres on the phenomenon of the ...
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January 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Parution : Ellie Crookes, The Many Joans of Arc. Embodying Medievalism Worldwide, ARC, 2025, 238 p.
Plus d'informations sur notre page ⬇️
modmed.hypotheses.org/8847
Plus d'informations sur notre page ⬇️
modmed.hypotheses.org/8847
From the current issue: “The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney”
by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney*
Abstract. This article explains how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of radical queer nuns, created gay ‘religious relics’ in San Francisco and
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 AM
From the current issue: “The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney”
by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Miles Pattenden (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
A milestone for open scholarship: the first 100 Path to Open books have officially become #OpenAccess! 📖
Published in 2023 and now freely available worldwide, these peer-reviewed scholarly monographs span the humanities and social sciences.
Explore the books: https://bit.ly/3Nl7nDy
Published in 2023 and now freely available worldwide, these peer-reviewed scholarly monographs span the humanities and social sciences.
Explore the books: https://bit.ly/3Nl7nDy
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
A milestone for open scholarship: the first 100 Path to Open books have officially become #OpenAccess! 📖
Published in 2023 and now freely available worldwide, these peer-reviewed scholarly monographs span the humanities and social sciences.
Explore the books: https://bit.ly/3Nl7nDy
Published in 2023 and now freely available worldwide, these peer-reviewed scholarly monographs span the humanities and social sciences.
Explore the books: https://bit.ly/3Nl7nDy
Normal european weirdness about Eating Two Meals a Day is classism with roots in medievalism in which only peasants ate breakfast, so sophisticates ate only lunch and dinner. But if you go back further, weirdness about Eating Two Meals a Day was entirely functional, and people of practical value […]
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January 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Normal european weirdness about Eating Two Meals a Day is classism with roots in medievalism in which only peasants ate breakfast, so sophisticates ate only lunch and dinner. But if you go back further, weirdness about Eating Two Meals a Day was entirely functional, and people of practical value […]
Two weeks today I'm appearing at the Oxford Medieval English Research Seminar - thanks @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and Daniel Wakelin for inviting me! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... My paper is ‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right
Medieval English Research Seminar - Oxford Talks
talks.ox.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Two weeks today I'm appearing at the Oxford Medieval English Research Seminar - thanks @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and Daniel Wakelin for inviting me! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... My paper is ‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right
Yes he definitely seems to love his ersatz medievalism. I'm not getting any closer than "reactionary" to describe what this thing is, there must be a better word for it--hard-right obscurantist backward-looking fantasies of Ur-ancestor societies that never could have existed in the imagined form
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Yes he definitely seems to love his ersatz medievalism. I'm not getting any closer than "reactionary" to describe what this thing is, there must be a better word for it--hard-right obscurantist backward-looking fantasies of Ur-ancestor societies that never could have existed in the imagined form
I’m just as worried by the crosshairs reference and the lance (the latter a poor attempt at getting a crusade reference in there? And by poor I mean, any medievalism will do?)
January 13, 2026 at 9:16 AM
I’m just as worried by the crosshairs reference and the lance (the latter a poor attempt at getting a crusade reference in there? And by poor I mean, any medievalism will do?)
"How do you know she was a witch?
Ah, see, if she wasn't a witch God would have saved her..."
The US has transported itself back to medievalism.
Ah, see, if she wasn't a witch God would have saved her..."
The US has transported itself back to medievalism.
January 13, 2026 at 6:02 AM
"How do you know she was a witch?
Ah, see, if she wasn't a witch God would have saved her..."
The US has transported itself back to medievalism.
Ah, see, if she wasn't a witch God would have saved her..."
The US has transported itself back to medievalism.
The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
MAMG25 Proceedings
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January 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
Watching Sleeping Beauty with my little one and a) it is easily the most visually rich of Disney’s films and b) its medievalism is so fascinating in its obvious debt to the 19th century folk romantic
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Watching Sleeping Beauty with my little one and a) it is easily the most visually rich of Disney’s films and b) its medievalism is so fascinating in its obvious debt to the 19th century folk romantic
C19 medievalism🤝C21 far right
'[The nation's] women will reform [the nation's] men and will have to rescue our history, not through Amazonian traits, but through the power of noble hearts & powerful femininity. In family life, in marriage, lies our hope, which madmen want to destroy' (Karl Weinhold)
'[The nation's] women will reform [the nation's] men and will have to rescue our history, not through Amazonian traits, but through the power of noble hearts & powerful femininity. In family life, in marriage, lies our hope, which madmen want to destroy' (Karl Weinhold)
January 10, 2026 at 11:21 AM
C19 medievalism🤝C21 far right
'[The nation's] women will reform [the nation's] men and will have to rescue our history, not through Amazonian traits, but through the power of noble hearts & powerful femininity. In family life, in marriage, lies our hope, which madmen want to destroy' (Karl Weinhold)
'[The nation's] women will reform [the nation's] men and will have to rescue our history, not through Amazonian traits, but through the power of noble hearts & powerful femininity. In family life, in marriage, lies our hope, which madmen want to destroy' (Karl Weinhold)
The thread nobody asked for! Unsolicited trivia about my coming book "Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music: The Case of Hispanic Epic Themes". Everything you did not want to know about the Metal Music Studies publication you were not waiting for (but are now!).
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The thread nobody asked for! Unsolicited trivia about my coming book "Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music: The Case of Hispanic Epic Themes". Everything you did not want to know about the Metal Music Studies publication you were not waiting for (but are now!).
it's really frustrating that that sort of thing crops up around medievalism. i know there are a lot of good folks around it as an academic field and as an interest, it doesn't have to be this way.
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
it's really frustrating that that sort of thing crops up around medievalism. i know there are a lot of good folks around it as an academic field and as an interest, it doesn't have to be this way.
- A book about what I call dirtbag medievalism-- the ambient, de-historicized version of Middle Ages with remarkable reach in popular culture.
- A history of Chaucer's readers, 1400-2000 (forthcoming Routledge, 2027?)
- A book about the politics and poetics of language change, c. 1382-1602
- A history of Chaucer's readers, 1400-2000 (forthcoming Routledge, 2027?)
- A book about the politics and poetics of language change, c. 1382-1602
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
- A book about what I call dirtbag medievalism-- the ambient, de-historicized version of Middle Ages with remarkable reach in popular culture.
- A history of Chaucer's readers, 1400-2000 (forthcoming Routledge, 2027?)
- A book about the politics and poetics of language change, c. 1382-1602
- A history of Chaucer's readers, 1400-2000 (forthcoming Routledge, 2027?)
- A book about the politics and poetics of language change, c. 1382-1602
Je dirais plus Vikings ; mais oui, on est dans cette esthétique de "dirty/gritty medievalism". Ils sont loins, les collants verts d'Errol Flynn.
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Je dirais plus Vikings ; mais oui, on est dans cette esthétique de "dirty/gritty medievalism". Ils sont loins, les collants verts d'Errol Flynn.
Diablo 2 is my idealized Middle Ages.
Though I follow your dirtbag medievalism and Eco’s neo-medievalism.
Though I follow your dirtbag medievalism and Eco’s neo-medievalism.
January 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Diablo 2 is my idealized Middle Ages.
Though I follow your dirtbag medievalism and Eco’s neo-medievalism.
Though I follow your dirtbag medievalism and Eco’s neo-medievalism.
Vampires and medievalism! The last time I saw something for which I was so squarely the target demographic, it was Outlander
January 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Vampires and medievalism! The last time I saw something for which I was so squarely the target demographic, it was Outlander
I’ll be talking about my experiences of recreating medieval manuscript techniques at the IHR Medievalism seminar on 25 February (hybrid) @ihr.bsky.social #bookhistory #medievalsky
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The challenges and constraints of making medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century
www.history.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I’ll be talking about my experiences of recreating medieval manuscript techniques at the IHR Medievalism seminar on 25 February (hybrid) @ihr.bsky.social #bookhistory #medievalsky
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
🌟 **Happy Bashori Festival!** 🌟
Today, January 5th, 2026, we celebrate #bashorifestival in Pakistan! 🎉 This vibrant and colorful festival holds a special place in our hearts and cultures. It's a time to come together, rejoice, and cherish the richness of our […]
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Today, January 5th, 2026, we celebrate #bashorifestival in Pakistan! 🎉 This vibrant and colorful festival holds a special place in our hearts and cultures. It's a time to come together, rejoice, and cherish the richness of our […]
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January 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
🌟 **Happy Bashori Festival!** 🌟
Today, January 5th, 2026, we celebrate #bashorifestival in Pakistan! 🎉 This vibrant and colorful festival holds a special place in our hearts and cultures. It's a time to come together, rejoice, and cherish the richness of our […]
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Today, January 5th, 2026, we celebrate #bashorifestival in Pakistan! 🎉 This vibrant and colorful festival holds a special place in our hearts and cultures. It's a time to come together, rejoice, and cherish the richness of our […]
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