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The Medieval Writerâ€™s window, The Great Hall at The University of Sydney

An image of one of a series of colourful and elaborate figural windows with trefoil heads created especially for The University of Sydney by the London firm of Clayton & Bell (c. 1859-60). The window depicts three well-known medieval writers:…

Knights Templar jump from Dan Brown to Down Under

An article by Dylan Welch in The Sydney Morning Herald about the Knights Templar in Australia. The article briefly outlines the origins of the order in the early twelfth century as protectors of Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem, and its disbandment in…

Tags: Christian, Christianity, Crusades, Dan Brown, fiction, knighthood, knights, Knights Templar, literature, Military Orders, New South Wales, NSW, religion, religious, Sydney, The Da Vinci Code, The Sydney Morning Herald, war

The Other House

In this article from the Western Mail newspaper, notice is given about the publication of Henry Jamesâ€™s novel â€œThe Other Houseâ€. The novel had been published by William Heinemann in London the previous year (1896). The author of…

Tags: "William Heinemann - publisher", child-murder, drowning, fiction, Henry James, literature, marriage proposals, medieval barbarity, murder, novel

Children's Literature Unit

Undergraduate English Literature unit ‘Children’s Literature’ offered at the Fremantle campus of The University of Notre Dame (Australia). The unit features a number of texts that have aspects of medievalism, including those by…

Tags: C.S. Lewis, child, children, fiction, Fremantle, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.M. Barrie, juvenile, literature, Narnia, Notre Dame University, Peter Pan, WA, Western Australia

'Romancing the Medieval' Unit

Level 3 undergraduate unit â€˜Romancing the Medievalâ€™ 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…

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…

The Wolf Letters Website

Will Schaefer’s novel ‘The Wolf Letters’ is a murder-mystery set in England in 1936, but the murders relate to events in the eighth century. An historian investigates. The novel was inspired by the life of the Anglo-Saxon missionary…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, literature, missionary, novel, Perth, promotion, St Boniface, The Wolf Letters, University of Western Australia, UWA, WA, Western Australia, Will Schaefer, Winfrith

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…

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