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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…
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
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 ‘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
'The Anglo-Saxon World' Unit
Second year undergraduate unit ‘The Anglo-Saxon World’ coordinated by G.J. Tulloch at Flinders University. Although the unit focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature of the eighth to eleventh centuries, including an introduction to the Old…
York Minster Bells
An image of the recasting of the York Minster Bells, which are described as being "the heaviest ringing in England." The article states Taylor & Company of Longborough, Leicester, who worked on the bells, were contracted to cast the carillon for…