ML200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Medievalism
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Concluding Thoughts/Questions
• What is the point of studying medievalism in pop culture? What can it tell us?
o Understand what we are drawn to
o Tell you about residual effects of history and historical events
o Look at the world through a different lens
o Motivation to look more deeply about what we tell one another
o How we perceive the past and its perceptions
o Sake of understanding our culture better
• How can pop culture medievalism have wider social consequences or impacts?
o Many misinterpretations of medievalism and its ideas
▪ Trump with Isis
▪ Crusading
o Learn from them
• How important is interdisciplinary to medievalism studies?
o Not well-established enough since it is new
o Many different mediums
o Overall knowledge
o Need to understand contemporary revisions
▪ Medieval vs. medievalism
Exam Format
• 2/4 essay questions
• 1 2x sided cheat sheet w w.e. I like
• Themes for essay questions:
o Authenticity
o Medievalism in dystopian/post-apocalyptic settings
o The challenging of studying medievalism and how well the theoretical frameworks
do/do not work
o Where medievalism studies should go from here
• Each Q specifies a minimum of 3 topics and/or examples from course materials in your answer
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