Publisher DetailsTable of Contents Publisher Details Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024) Pages: 386Bibliographic Info: 73 photos, notes, bibliography, index Purchase: McFarland | Amazon This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films…
This page builds on my essay published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018) titled "Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular Culture" (open access!). The basic thesis is that the image of a living warrior covered in arrows was once relegated to medieval chronicles on the Crusades,…
One of the most common inspirations I’ve seen for Joan of Arc book covers is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s 1854 painting entitled Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de Reims (Joan of Arc at the coronation of King Charles VII, in the Reims Cathedral). This piece is displayed prominently at the Louvre…
In Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Strange and America Chavez are on the run from the Scarlet Witch, and they naturally seek refuge at the Kamar-Taj. This fictional place in Katmandu, Nepal is where Strange and other sorcerers trained. There is plenty to look at in the set, which is a hodgepodge…
In 1913, Al Ringling kept Joan of Arc as the theme for the 45-minute spectacle that preceded each Ringling Bros. circus show. That meant that targeted towns saw a lot of Joan of Arc-related advertising like this one in the Taunton Daily Gazette (June 7). Ads like these appeared in newspapers all over America in…
Publisher DetailsReviewsTable of Contents Publisher Details Scott Manning (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) Pages: i-xviii, 281Bibliographic Info: Map, chronology, appendix, bibliography, index Purchase: Rowman & Littlefield | Amazon Joan of Arc is the most recognizable woman from medieval Europe, yet the details of her life remain obscure to the general public while heavily debated by…
Call for Papers sponsored by The International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2023)May 11 to 13, 2023 Western Michigan University In his translation of Joan of Arc’s 1431 condemnation trial, Daniel Hobbins instructed his readers that the defendant "was not a contradiction to her…
This week, The Year’s Work in Medievalism published my paper "Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)" examining the latest Doom movie directed by Tony Giglio. It is available for free via open access, but here are some of the highlights. Writer/Director Tony Giglio chose a female lead for Doom: Annihilation, the first in…
In a paper published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism, I followed the trend of depicting living armored warriors covered with arrows from medieval chronicles to Samurai films to comic books. The image continues to find prevalence in popular culture, and I made the following conclusion The spectacle of a hedgehogged warrior is emerging in…
In 2018, I had the privilege of writing the afterword for Tapestry Comics’ graphic novel A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Story of Joan of Arc. The editor has allowed me to publish the complete text here. Afterword Regardless of how academic they are, historians still get hyperbolic about Joan of Arc. Depending…
I’m thrilled to share that my paper on warriors riddled with arrows found in medieval Muslim/Christian chronicles, comics, films, and television, can be read in the latest volume of This Year’s Work in Medievalism (open access). This is my first publication in a peer-reviewed journal and it feels like I completed a dare by drawing…