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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…

'The Last Viking' Display

A digital photograph of popular Viking items in a display case at the State Library of Western Australia. The display advertises a book signing session by Norman Jorgensen for his 2011 childrenâ€™s book The Last Viking, illustrated by James…

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…

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

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…

'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…

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

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

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