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Shakespeare Unit

Level 2 undergraduate unit â€˜Shakespeareâ€™ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…

Tags: adaption, drama, dramatic, film, films, Hamlet, MacBeth, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria, William Shakespeare

Medievalism and Youth Culture Masterclass

An invitation to postgraduate students and early career researchers to attend the ARC Masterclass â€˜Medievalism and Youth Cultureâ€™. The Masterclass is to be held at The University of Western Australia on December 6, 2011, and is led 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…

Full Metal Jousting: Rod Walker

This online biography of Rod Walker appears on the History.com website for the television show Full Metal Jousting. Rod, a founding member of the International Jousting Association, is one of the coaches on the show. The show is a televised jousting…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, combat, Full Metal Jousting, helmet, History.com, International Jousting Association, jousting, knight, lance, New South Wales, NSW, Rod Walker, shield, television

Suncorp Home Loan Hero advertisement

A 2012 television advertisement for Suncorp Banking features a bank lender briefly appearing to a couple as their hero, a medieval knight wearing plate armour. He is literally a knight in shining armour as a halo appears around his upper body, and…

Tags: Advert, advertisement, Armour, bank, chivalry, hero, knight, plate armour, Suncorp, Suncorp Banking, Suncorp Home Loan Hero, television, tv.

Medieval Instruments

The ABC TV programme Stateline Tasmania featured a report in 2009 titled ‘Medieval Instruments’. Reporter Rowan Dix interviewed Harry Wass and Graeme McCormack, two instrument makers based in the southern Tasmanian region of Pelverata.…

Tags: ABC, dulcimer, Graeme McCormack, hammered dulcimer, Harlequin, Harry Wass., instrument, Medieval Instruments, moraharpa, Pelverata, Renaissance, Rowan Dix, Stateline Tasmania, Tas, Tasmania, television, tv

Hungry Jacks Chicken Minis advertisement

The Hungry Jacks television advertisement for their Chicken Minis burger opens with a jousting tournament on the ‘Isle of Shetland’, Scotland. A knight in full armour and helmet with visor rides a Shetland pony and carries a lance. The…

Tags: â€˜Eat Righteousâ€™, Ad, advertisement, Armour, helmet, Hungry Jacks, Hungry Jacks Chicken Minis, Isle of Shetland, jousting, knight, lance, Scotland, Shetland, Shetland pony, television, tournament, tv, visor.

Hungry Jacks Legendary Whopper advertisement

The Hungry Jacks television advertisement for their Whopper burger features a segment in which a man in armour is made a knight (or is ‘knighted’ according to the advert). The segment shows the accolade, also known as dubbing, during…

Tags: â€˜Eat Righteousâ€™, Accolade, Ad, advertisement, Armour, dubbing, Hungry Jacks, Hungry Jacks Whopper, knight, knighted, sword, television, tv.

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