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War Sword store
War Sword is a store specialising in swords and armour in the Brisbane suburb of Carina, Queensland. They sell various re-creations of medieval weapons, including axes, halberds, shields, spears, swords, and helmets and full suits of armour. There…
'Romancing the Medieval' Unit
Level 3 undergraduate unit ‘Romancing the Medieval’ coordinated by Stephanie Trigg at the University of Melbourne. The unit covers a variety of genres of medieval literature, as well as post-16th century works that re-create or revive…
Tags: Alfred Tennyson, Edmund Spenser, fairy tales, fantasy, fiction, film, hobbit, hobbits, literature, Melbourne, Peter Jackson, poetry, pop culture, popular culture, Stephanie Trigg, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Mythistory: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Medieval Imagination
Aposter for the second and third year undergraduate course ‘Mythistory’ offered at The University of Western Australia. The course examines popular science fiction and fantasy films and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first…
‘Under Merlin’s Spell’
This entertainment piece from The West Australian’s online edition reviews the BBC series Merlin (2008). At the time the article was written in 2010, the second season of the series was being aired on Australian television by Channel 10. The…
Shakespeare in Adaptation unit
Second and third year undergraduate unit at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus, in Melbourne)coordinated by Chris Palmer. The unit examines four of Shakespeare’s plays, including two film versions of each play. One of the plays set during…
Crowd outside the Hoyts Century Theatre at the Preview of Camelot, Sydney
In this black and white photograph by J. A. Mulligan, a crowd gathers outside the Hoyts Century Theatre in Sydney on 20 December 1967 to attend a preview of the film Camelot. The film was a screen adaptation of the 1960 musical of the same name by…
Medievalism and Youth Culture Masterclass
This photograph was taken during the Medievalism and Youth Culture Masterclass held at The University of Western Australia on December 6, 2011. The masterclass followed directly after the International Medievalism and Popular Culture Symposium. The…
Medieval in the Modern World
A second and third year undergraduate unit taught at The University of Western Australia. The unit was created by Andrew Lynch and features novels, poetry and film from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reinterpreted medieval…
Tags: Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Lynch, Arthur, Arthurian, Beowulf, cinema, fantasy, film, films, Geoffrey Hill, Guy Gavriel Kay, John Gardner, Jorge-Luis Borges, legend, legends, literature, Mark Twain, Monty Python, myth, mythology, myths, Neil Gaiman, Perth, poetry, Randolph Stow, Robert Bresson, Robert Zemeckis, Seamus Heaney, universities, university, University of Western Australia, UWA, WA, Western Australia