Medievalism and Convergence Culture: Researching the Middle Ages for Fiction and Film

Author / Editor
Trigg, Stephanie.

Title
Medievalism and Convergence Culture: Researching the Middle Ages for Fiction and Film

Published
Parergon 25.2 (2008): 99-118.

Description
Trigg identifies two conflicting motivations for the making of Brian Helgeland's film "A Knight's Tale": the desire for academic research to provide legitimacy and the desire to create a new fictional narrative to engage a contemporary audience. This and similar popular narratives contribute to the current popular distribution of medieval knowledge, an area of focus for medievalism studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films