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Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

The middle ages provide the material for mass—market films, for historical and fantasy fiction, for political propaganda and claims of legitimacy, and these in their turn exert a force well outside academia. The phenomenon is tooimportant to be left unscrutinised: these essays show the continuing power and applicability of medieval images — and also, it must be said, their dangerou...