Author: mlee16

Donna Trembinski discusses the seldom discussed role of medieval nostalgia in North American university culture, from the continued use of caps and gowns at graduation ceremonies to the policing of campuses through internal courts and codes of conducts.

Shoufu Yin discusses the recent increasing salience of Chinese women warriors in popular media, and what we can learn from the phenomenon as writers and teachers of history.

Julie Gibbings delves into the role of medievalism in Latin America, discussing how a central narrative depicting “not yet modern” Iberian colonizers as having brought feudalism, despotism and theocracy to the region has made the concept a central and ongoing locus for political debate within the region.

Robert Zecker discusses the role of a “sanctified myth” of the arrival of ancestors bringing notions of liberty, self sacrifice and innate American patriotism by current nativist currents in the United States putting forth anti-immigrant sentiment.

Sara Ann Knuston delves into recent representations of archaeology in Ancient Egyptian sites, discussing both Disney’s recent TV series “Moon Knight” and National Geographic’s documentary “Lost Treasures of Egypt” and the role of popular cultural representations in shaping both public understandings of a field and the discipline’s execution itself.