Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

Arthur, Arthurian, King Arthur, Arts and Crafts Movement, Marion Zimmer Bradley, cinema, Umberto Eco, film, gothic, Macquarie University, William Morris, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, VIC, Victoria, Victorian medievalism

A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Victorian medievalism, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s reimaging of the Arthurian legend ‘The Mists of Avalon’, and ‘The Name of the Rose’, the medieval detective novel by Umberto Eco. The unit also covers the representation of the medieval period in film.

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Macquarie University, Open Universities Australia

4 July 2011

Macquarie University, Open Universities Australia

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