The difficult and nuanced issue of discrimination - race, gender, ethicity, religion - is the focus of this volume.

The difficult and nuanced issue of discrimination - race, gender, ethicity, religion - is the focus of this volume.

Discrimination has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely been weaponized as thoroughly and publicly as in recent exchanges. The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has taken in medievalism (studies) relative to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity. These papers thus inform many of the subsequent chapters, which address a wide variety of aspects of medievalism, showing how many cultural areas it touches upon. Subjects include Evelyn Underhill's literary interest in the Arts and Crafts Movement; the Anchoresses of the filmmaker Chris Newby and novelist RobynCadwallader; cinematic battle orations; contemporary representations of Viking helmet horns; modern board-game culture; and Vincent Van Gogh's Studio of the South. The volume also includes a transcription and contextualization ofthe celebrated scholar Helen Waddell's notes on medieval texts.

KARL FUGELSO is Professor of Art History at Towson University.

Contributors: Carla Arnell, Aida Audeh, Peter Burkholder, Christopher Caldiero,Michael Evans, Jennifer FitzGerald, Jonathan Godsall, Angus J. Kennedy, Nadia Margolis, Lauryn Mayer, Timothy S. Miller, Tison Pugh, Richard Utz, Kim Wilkins, Karen A. Winstead, Helen Young

Preface
Freedom to Discriminate - Helen Young
"You wouldn't want to be historically inaccurate": Online Responses to Race in Medievalist Television - Michael Evans
Medievalism, Antisemitism, and Twenty-First-Century Media: An Update - Richard Utz
Mythogyny: Popular Medievalism and Toxic Masculinity - Lauryn S. Mayer
The Cool and the Queer in Bugs Bunny's Middle Ages - Tison Pugh
Work for the Soul: Medievalism, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Development of a Practical Spirituality in Evelyn Underhill's NovelThe Gray World - Carla A. Arnell
Exhuming the Living Dead: TheAnchoresses of Chris Newby and Robyn Cadwallader - Karen A Winstead
The King's Speech: Battle Orations in Medieval Film - Peter Burkholder and Jonathan Godsall and Christopher Caldiero
Horns: Vikings, Adaptation, Evolution - Kim Wilkins
Bidding with Beowulf, Dicing with Chaucer, and Playing Poker with King Arthur: Neomedievalism in Modern Board Gaming Culture - Timothy Miller
Vincent van Gogh, theTre Corone, and the Studio of the South - Aida Audeh
A Transcription of Helen Waddell's Notes on theRoman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan: Manuscript Queen's University Belfast 18/1/c - Angus J Kennedy
A Transcription of Helen Waddell's Notes on theRoman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan: Manuscript Queen's University Belfast 18/1/c - Nadia Margolis
A Transcription of Helen Waddell's Notes on theRoman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan: Manuscript Queen's University Belfast 18/1/c - Jennifer FitzGerald