Medieval Imaginaries in Tourism, Heritage and the Media

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The continuing fascination for the medieval
	Introduction: Dubrovnik and Game of Thrones
	Medievalism and the media
	Heritage tourism
	The medieval world
	Theoretical frameworks
		The medieval as a shared heritage
		Authenticity and anachronism
		Eco’s medieval typology
			Pretext/context for a narrative
			Ironical revisitation
			Barbaric age
			The Romantic Middle Ages
			National identities
			Decadence
			So-called tradition
			The expectation of the millennium
		Tourism imaginaries
		Mediatisation and intertextuality
	Aims and objectives of this book
	References
Chapter 2: Gazing at the Gothic: Medievalism and tourism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
	Introduction: the Eglinton Tournament
	Literary foundations
	Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott, 1819)
	Romanticising the medieval through events
	Gothic architecture
	The Pre-Raphaelites and the reimagining of medieval art
	The Vikings revived
	Medieval imaginaries outside Europe
	The Woolworth Building, New York
	Medieval literature and legends in the New World
		A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain, 1889)
	The Vikings in America
	Into the twentieth century
	References
Chapter 3: Medieval kingship: Hollow crown or tower of strength?
	Introduction
	The complex king – Alfred the Great
	The flawed king – Henry II
	The rehabilitated king – Richard III
	The good king – King Arthur
	The king is dead, long live the king
	References
Chapter 4: The princess in the tower?: Changing representations of medieval women
	Introduction: pretty in pink
	Beyond the damsel in distress
	Fictional medieval women – a growing complexity
		Queen Guinevere
		Maid Marian
		Game of Thrones
		The Letter for the King
	The Disney princess
	The female warrior
	Where are the real women?
	The new princess
	References
Chapter 5: Medieval knights and chivalry
	Introduction: A Knight’s Tale (2001)
	The evolution of knighthood
	The age of chivalry
	The chivalric cycle in cinema of the 1950s
		Ivanhoe (1952)
		Prince Valiant (1954)
		King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
		The Black Knight (1954)
		The Court Jester (1955)
	Changing representations of knights and chivalry in cinema
		The Seventh Seal (1957)
		The War Lord (1965)
	The modern cinematic imagery of knighthood
		Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
	Knights as warriors
	Medieval battles on screen
		Ivanhoe (1952)
		Game of Thrones (George Martin, 1996)
	Practicing warrior-craft: tournaments
	The military decline of knights
	References
Chapter 6: Medieval castles and walled cities
	Introduction
	The historical development of castles
	Media representations of castles
		The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett, 1989)
	Castle tourism
	Warwick Castle
	Alnwick Castle
	Chinon Castle
	Walled towns
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Positioning medieval cathedrals in the modern era
	Introduction
	The medieval cathedral
	Cathedral tourism
	Keeping the doors open
	The cathedral as a film set
	Cathedrals in fictional media
	The cathedral as an event space
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Robin Hood: Reinterpreting the medieval outlaw
	Introduction
	The Outlaw Myth
	Ballads and festivals
		Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott, 1819)
		Robin Hood (1922)
		The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
	The children’s Robin Hood of the 1950s and 1960s
		Robin and Marian (1976)
		Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
		Robin Hood (2010)
		Robin Hood (2018)
	Locational dissonance and Robin Hood movies
	The tourism geography of Robin Hood
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: The hammer of the gods?: Contested and changing imaginaries of the Vikings
	Introduction
	Vikings in the popular media
		Prince Valiant (1954)
		The Vikings (1958)
		The Long Ships (1964)
		The Norseman (1978)
		The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell, 2004)
		Vikings (2013–2021)
	Medieval York, Jorvik and the commodification of the Vikings
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Encounters with the ‘Other’: Crusaders and Muslims in medieval narratives
	Medieval Córdoba
	The Crusades
	Media representation of the Crusades
		The Crusades (1935)
		El Cid (1961)
		Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
		Knightfall (2017–2019)
		Robin Hood (2018)
	The Muslim in the West
	Westerners as the savage Other
	Tourism on the Muslim–European frontier
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Japan and medievalism: The samurai, cinema and cultural appropriation
	Introduction
	Japan’s medieval cast: samurai, ninja and ronin
		Seven Samurai (1954)
	Further samurai productions
	Reimagining and appropriating medieval Japan
	Japanese appropriation of the medieval
	Medieval Japan and tourism
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Fictional media and heritage from the medieval perspective: Trends, issues and setting a research agenda
	Introduction: the battle at Battle
	New media and a renewed focus on the medieval
	Mouvance or intertextuality
	The decay factor for media-induced heritage tourism
	Medievalism in a global world
	Invention and authenticity
	The changing nature of the hero
	The narrative of everyday life
	Eco’s medievalisms revisited
	A young person’s Middle Ages
	Some final words
	References
Chapter 13: Filmography
Index