Ebook: Mittelalter im Film

This volume offers a comprehensive account and documentation of the way the Middle Ages have been presented in the medium of film. It is arranged as a compendium, contains a comprehensive introduction, and treats all aspects of cinematic images of medieval times (myths, heroes, materials, the presentation of violence, the image of women etc.). It thus documents a particularly important source of our popular contemporary view of the Middle Ages. A comprehensive filmography assembles all the important films on the Middle Ages.