Authentically medieval : authors and scholars on depicting the Middle Ages in fiction /
"This collection compiles essays by medieval scholars on novels depicting the Middle Ages, examining the extent to which writers can authentically represent the period while meeting the challenge of creating engaging literature. The works discussed represent a variety of genres by authors with...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Debra E. Best, Patricia H. Ward, and Elizabeth L. Rambo
- A nun, a werewolf and a Medievalist walk into a romance novel: writing fantasy Medievalism / Emily Lavin Leverett
- Riding with Chaucer on the bus of anachronism: modernizing the Canterbury Tales / Kim Zarins
- "God's elbows, boy, don't burn me with the facts": faithful revisionism in the "Merlin Mysteries" series / Jay Ruud
- Mind the gaps: world-building in Rebecca Barnhouse's The Coming of the Dragon and Peaceweaver / Patricia H. Ward
- "Her life was no heroic adventure of daring and greatness": Susan Signe Morrison's Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife and the hidden violence of Beowulf / Alison Gulley
- Player Chaucer's game in Paul Doherty's Canterbury Tales series / M. Wendy Hennequin
- The fantasy space of Medieval history: authenticity in Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book / Debra E. Best
- Justice as women's work in the novels of Candace Robb / Teresa Marie Hooper
- Nuns and nun-sense: recreating Medieval spirituality in the Dame Frevisse novels of Margaret Frazer / Josephine A. Koster
- Accidental Medievalist: Dorothy Dunnett and King Hereafter / Elizabeth L. Rambo and Heike Meyer.