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Americans could learn a thing or two from Bibi Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister was in Washington this week to receive the American Enterprise Institute’s Irving Kristol Award. He made some ...

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages. The appropriation of faux-medieval culture by modern racists happens ...

Via @edwest, the most neoliberal thing you’ll read all week. Excerpts: Until fairly recently, it was rare to find Americans who were passionate about both medieval history and contemporary politics.

Delta College History Instructor Michael Evans is the lead organizer of the 36th International Conference on Medievalism. The conference is scheduled for November 4-6, 2021 and will be hosted online ...

Many of us have spent the last week glued to our televisions watching the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. A marauding and medieval religious cult, the Taliban are famous for banning education for women, ...

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, seeks 3,000-word essays on how medievalism supports, parallels, resists, complicates, disrupts, denies, or otherwise relates to ...

A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. I try to write about emerging trends in this column, but this week ...

About four decades ago, when Leslie J. Workman organized the first sessions on the subject of Medievalism at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, few people listened. As a paradigm, ...