Ebook: Medieval afterlives in popular culture

Drawing from an eclectic mix of scholars from the US, UK, and Australia,Medieval Afterlives in Popular Cultureexamines the persistence of medieval themes, characters, and situations in a variety of media from reality television to Virginia Woolf, Arthurian film to Disney animation, Shrek to historical fantasy. Each essay demonstrates that the Middle Ages are not relegated to a static past but continue to fashion a vital presence in contemporary popular culture, changing our assumptions about the flow of history and the creation of the present.