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Parution : Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World

Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno et Anthony Perron (dir.), Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World. An Introduction through Film, coll. Medieval Studies, Fordham, 2025.

This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic “legal medievalism,” or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular culture.

For more than a century, filmmakers have used the “Middle Ages” to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the twenty chapters in Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World represents an original contribution to our understanding of how medieval regulations, laws, and customs have been depicted in film. It offers a window into the “rules” of medieval society through the lens of popular culture.

This book includes analyses of recent and older films, avant-garde as well as popular cinema. Films discussed in this book include Braveheart (1995), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), The Last Duel (2021), The Green Knight (2021), The Little Hours (2017), and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), among others.

Each chapter explores the contemporary context of the film in question, the medieval literary or historical milieu the film references, and the lessons the film can teach us about the medieval world. Attached to each chapter is an appendix of medieval documentary sources and reading questions to prompt critical reflection.

 

Table des matières / Table of Contents

Introduction
Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron | 1

Canon Law and the World of the Medieval Church

1. Between Royal Law and Canon Law in Becket (1964)
Anthony Perron | 9

2. Relic Movement, Anathema, and Crusade in Pilgrimage (2017)
Sarah C. Luginbill | 22

3. The Creation of the Franciscan Rule in Francesco (1989)
Nathan Melson | 36

4. Poverty and Heresy in The Name of the Rose (1986)
M. Christina Bruno | 49

5. Joan of Arc’s Inquisitorial Trial of Faith in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Henry Ansgar Kelly | 61

“Feudal” Law and the Customs of Lordship

6. The Chivalric Code in The Green Knight (2021)
Coral Lumbley | 75

7. Crusading and Oath-Taking in Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Esther Liberman Cuenca | 89

8. Forest Law in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Casey Ireland | 101

9. Trial by Battle and Gendered Medievalisms in The Last Duel (2021)
Sara McDougall and David M. Perry | 114

10. Animal Trials in The Advocate (1993)
Julie K. Chamberlin | 126

Women and Representations of Premodern Law

11. Religious Women’s Authority and Rules for Nuns in Vision:
From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Lucy C. Barnhouse | 141

12. War, Family, and the Law of the Kyivan Rus in Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Asif A. Siddiqi | 153

13. Church Law, Community Practice, and the Witch Trial That Wasn’t in Sorceress (1987)
Rachel Ellen Clark and Lucy C. Barnhouse | 166

14. The Myth of Jus Primae Noctis, or the “Right of the First Night,” in Braveheart (1995)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock | 180

15. Medieval Satire and the Canon Law of Claustration in The Little Hours (2017)
Spencer Strub | 195

Religious Conflict and Forging Communities through Law

16. Late Roman Law, Women’s Status, and Classical Education in Agora (2009)
Christopher Bonura | 211

17. Depicting the Prophet, Social Justice, and the Pillars of Islam in The Message (1976)
Maria Americo | 225

18. Lawful Language and Global North Encounters in The 13th Warrior (1999)
Daniel Armenti and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia | 237

19. Jewish Assimilation and the Absent “Saracens” and Africans of Ivanhoe (1952)
Celia Chazelle | 251

20. Medieval Science, the Spanish Inquisition, and Religious Violence in 1492:
Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Eugene Smelyansky | 265

Acknowledgments | 279

Contributors | 281

Index | 283

 

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Parution : Cinema Medievalia

Kevin J. Harty et Scott Manning (dir.), Cinema Medievalia. New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages, Jefferson, McFarland, 2024.

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 in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.
Written by contributors from around the globe with a wide variety of backgrounds, the essays in this volume take a critical approach to one of the most popular forms of medivalism. This book presents a full century of cinematic depictions of the Middle Ages, with new examinations of works such as The Seventh SealGod’s FoolLa Passion de Jeanne d’ArcSaladin the VictoriousDante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic, and A Knight’s Tale, among others.

Table des matières

Preface 1. The Middle Ages, from Real to Reel: An Introduction. Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning 3
Accidents of Time and Timing: The Seventh Seal (1957) and Black Death (2010). Dorsey Armstrong 23
The Consolation of Medievalism in Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988). Helen Young 40
Francis of Assisi: Making a ­Twelfth-Century Saint Accessible to Twentieth–and ­Twenty-First-Century Audiences. Francis Berna 58
The Archbishop and the King: Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964). Jonathan Good 79
The Book of Joan of Arc on Trial: Dreyer and Bresson. Gail Orgelfinger 97
The Northman’s Place in Viking Film History. Zachary J. Melton 112
“A decadent and ­child-murdering Wali”: The Targeted Racialization of the “Arab Sectarian” in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin the Victorious (1963). Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan 128
Medieval Scotland on Film: Braveheart and the Scottish Discursive Imaginary. Laura S. Harrison and Andrew B.R. Elliott 145
Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League. Scott Manning 163
The Illusion of Musical Authenticity in Alexander Nevsky (1938). John Haines 181
On the Queerness of England’s King John, as Captured in 473 Years of Stage and Screen Portrayals. Tison Pugh 198
The Depths of Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic. Karl Fugelso 219
“Nevertheless, she persisted”: Marginalizing the Other at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Fritz Lang’s Film Kriemhilds Rache (Kriemhild’s Revenge). Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand 234
Marcel Carné’s Les Visiteurs du soir and the Principle of “Included Third”. Raeleen Chai-Elsholz 252
Authenticity, Neoliberalism, and Socialism: The Name of the Rose (1986). Richard Utz 270
Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring in Dialog: From Shame Culture to Guilt Culture. Sandra Gorgievski 288
“Are you a woman or a blacksmith?” ­Cross-Sex Friendship Bonds in Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale. Richard Sévère 307
“Beware the Jabberwock”: Terry Gilliam’s Fractured Fairy Tale. Susan Aronstein and Taran Drummond 325
David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021): Authenticity and Accuracy, Historicons and Easter Eggs. Kevin J. Harty 343
Bibliography 361
About the Contributors 365
Index 369

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