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vampire: the masquerade
medievalism ﹠ dark fantasy
warhammer 40k ﹠ dracula
world building ﹠ oc creation
gothic ﹠ literary fiction ﹒﹒﹒﹒ ✞
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vampire: the masquerade
medievalism ﹠ dark fantasy
warhammer 40k ﹠ dracula
world building ﹠ oc creation
gothic ﹠ literary fiction ﹒﹒﹒﹒ ✞
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ʜᴜɴᴛ ﹒ sᴀɪɴᴛ ﹒ ʀᴏᴍ
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Medievalism in the wild! (My friend is a big Florence fan and texted me about this with great excitement!)
Julian of Norwich spotted on the new Florence and the Machine album:
![A screenshot of lyrics:
Downloading "Revelations of Divine Love" on my phone
Trying to read, but getting distracted
Trying to live, but feeling so damaged
[Chorus]
And all shall be well
All shall be well
Miracles are often inconvenient
And a prayer is a spell](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lgpith2upngzgh7cy5jygl3f/bafkreieh57sqvnqdgnlqonlfudqxd3h2ov7val5udpj4ybww5ltrlczqxe@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Saddle up, we're doing Florence Welch's medievalism
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Volume #024 of the Newsletter is out❗️
📕 #FinalFantasy #MortalKombat and #Cyberpunk2077 oh my!
📘 #Sonic comics are way past cool!
📗 Bolstering our #GameDev collection
📙 #Gamergate is back on the radar
📓 #Medievalism, #Games4Ed and #GameDesign all take the spotlight
Hope you all enjoy! 👇
📕 #FinalFantasy #MortalKombat and #Cyberpunk2077 oh my!
📘 #Sonic comics are way past cool!
📗 Bolstering our #GameDev collection
📙 #Gamergate is back on the radar
📓 #Medievalism, #Games4Ed and #GameDesign all take the spotlight
Hope you all enjoy! 👇
The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #024
Surprising announcements, long-awaited releases, and a bit of controversy! Plus 3 great Book Spotlights and a LOT of new cataloguing.
thevideogamelibrary.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Some days I really wish I was still teaching about medievalism in the modern age...
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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iirc thiel & adjacent neoreactionary weirdoes are obsessed w oldschool catholicism & faux-medievalism & I think there's this image of Tolkien as the cozy fireplace catholic intellectual that's v appealing to them? is my guess. he was from Oxford. the houses there have a look to them
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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New BOOK REVIEW 📚
"The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism"
👉 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@lindabraus.bsky.social @midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GamingThePast #GtP #GameStudies #HistoryGames #Archaeogaming #medievalsky #ancientbluesky #gaming
"The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism"
👉 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@lindabraus.bsky.social @midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GamingThePast #GtP #GameStudies #HistoryGames #Archaeogaming #medievalsky #ancientbluesky #gaming
BOOK REVIEW - The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism
Enrique Torres-Hergueta (2025); Palgrave Macmillan; Game Studies
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October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Thrilled to read this review of THE GERMAN HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES: PLAYING MASS MEDIEVALISM, which reinforces my belief that monographs can be fun. 😀
New BOOK REVIEW 📚
"The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism"
👉 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@lindabraus.bsky.social @midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GamingThePast #GtP #GameStudies #HistoryGames #Archaeogaming #medievalsky #ancientbluesky #gaming
"The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism"
👉 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-revie...
@lindabraus.bsky.social @midagesmodgames.bsky.social #GamingThePast #GtP #GameStudies #HistoryGames #Archaeogaming #medievalsky #ancientbluesky #gaming
BOOK REVIEW - The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games: Playing Mass Medievalism
Enrique Torres-Hergueta (2025); Palgrave Macmillan; Game Studies
thevideogamelibrary.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Not this administration getting every medievalism fantasy reference wrong… or showing their true White (Supremacist) Walker / Sith / Nazgûl darkside…
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Just recorded a video interview with Bruce Holsinger for our "Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism" conference. Come to Nancy if you want to know more!
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I’m a princess (and an excellent example of ‘medievalism’ 😂)
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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It’s been a busy but exciting 1st week here in Oxford! Co-taught the first of our Medievalism seminars on biofiction, gave my first solo lecture at the new humanities centre, taught two study skills sessions & two intro classes to Old and Middle English 💥 Back with a bang, baby! (And now we sleep!)
October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Really enjoyed delivering my micro lecture on Medievalism at the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities this morning, alongside my brilliant colleagues Dan Wakelin and Ayoush Lazikani. Kicking off the medieval paper in style in the new auditorium! ✨
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Beowulf is a work I never appreciated until I got into medievalism as a hobby, and did a performing arts event where a bunch of us nerds collectively learned and performed the text in a faux meadhall.
Context makes a huge difference.
Context makes a huge difference.
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Demonic Seduction: A Dark Medievalism - Medievalists.net
Explore how medieval beliefs about demons, witchcraft, and sex shaped centuries of theology, persecution, and fantasy—revealing the dark origins of one of history’s most persistent tropes.
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October 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Ars Magica is the white-whale tabletop game for me at this point because a lot of the stuff that makes it appealing make it a really difficult sell+it should be for long troupe style campaigns. Do you have an interest in medievalism? In strong social contracts between characters and factions?
October 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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When French TV Poached Robin Hood, by @ricutz.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/10/when... #medievalism #ThierryleFronde #TV
When French TV Poached Robin Hood - Medievalists.net
A 1960s French TV hit, Thierry la Fronde, reimagined Robin Hood during the Hundred Years’ War—turning an English outlaw tale into a story of French resistance, national pride, and political subtext.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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“He was not an orc”
I regret to inform you that the slavery apologists are doing LotR movies medievalism again
I regret to inform you that the slavery apologists are doing LotR movies medievalism again
Counterpoint:
You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers
You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers
October 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#CastleSaturday
15th C Aragonese Castle of Otranto: also title of 1st ever Gothic novel.
Horace Walpole's 1764 story played on medievalism + terror, generating a lasting tide of ghosts + ghouls.
He chose name as it was 'well sounding', not even aware of real castle on Puglian coast till 1786.
15th C Aragonese Castle of Otranto: also title of 1st ever Gothic novel.
Horace Walpole's 1764 story played on medievalism + terror, generating a lasting tide of ghosts + ghouls.
He chose name as it was 'well sounding', not even aware of real castle on Puglian coast till 1786.
October 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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There's a limit to wasting all your energy trying to combat the vile hordes of flag-shagging racists and xenophobes.
However, British satire sometimes draws on the Scottish flyting match: taunts and vituperation.
Note also the Pythonesque medievalism and black letter type.
#antifa #humour #refugees
However, British satire sometimes draws on the Scottish flyting match: taunts and vituperation.
Note also the Pythonesque medievalism and black letter type.
#antifa #humour #refugees
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Wrote my 30 page final for my Senior Thesis in college on Medievalism in Professional Wrestling at midnight the night before I needed to present it, then read it to a couple hundred people, took questions, and nailed an A.
Wrote the last 18 pages of a paper on Idi Amin as a freshman on an all-nighter, fueled only by Monster energy drinks and Snyder's honey mustard pretzel bits. Due 9 AM, only really got cooking at 10 PM. Got a B+.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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provided they have a college degree in a non stem or medievalism field, yes
October 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Part of my secret origins as a comics scholar was a paper I wrote in late grad school about medievalism in this abortive Swamp Thing arc, so it's pretty neat to find out that it will be published. Very sad that Michael Zulli didn't live to see it.
After 36 Years, DC Comics To Publish Rick Veitch's Final Swamp Thing
After 36 years, DC Comics has confirmed that they will publish Rick Veitch's final four issues of Swamp Thing in 2026
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October 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist www.medievalists.net/2025/07/the-... #medievalism
The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist - Medievalists.net
Discover how medievalist Umberto Eco used his fiction, scholarship, and political insight to expose the signs of modern fascism—and why his warnings remain urgent today.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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