Today many men spend mass with their eyes glossed over in a fantasy football game. Not much has changed because in the medieval world, thesesamemen passed their mass thinking about the jousting tournament that would take place after the service. For, it was really the promise of feasting and...
In a first for Ask a Medievalist, Em sits down with Sebastian Nothwell to discuss his approach to writing historical/historical fantasy novels. In the process, they get into everything from Victorian steam power to the effects of the peasants revolt of 1381 on the chartists in the 1830s–...
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Imbued with Christian symbolism, and blending biblical exegesis, natural science, fantasy, and humour, these encyclopaedic books were packed with descriptions of real and fantastic creatures. Each entry outlined an animal’s supposed appearance and characteristics, then provided a moral interpretation of...
Plenty of other stories written over the next couple of centuries made use of the Moon as a backdrop to play with the possibilities of new social orders (or to mock existing ones), but the turning point from fantasy to science fiction was the arrival of the twin titans Jules Verne and ...
From their names, however, we can see that they are ordered as in Hebrew. Either the letters have been poorly copied or taken from an incorrect original, or they are pure fantasy on the part of the scribe. The alphabet is reminiscent of those found in the Mandeville manuscripts from ...
but this time the man is carried by an exhausted lion, its paws clasped around the player’s ankles.There were captive wild animals in late medieval England.In an age of performing bears, horses, dogs and snakes, were there also performing lions, or should this be taken as a fantasy, ...
Although the Yamato court never ruled over an area large and diverse enough to be considered a “real” empire, its adoption of Sinic ideals of universal government was not just an empty fantasy but a staging ground for actual state building that had very real effects on its development. More...
He moved from Joycean models to realism to fantasy before achieving astounding success with his metaliterary, postmodern romps La saga/fuga de J.B. (1972; “J.B.’s Flight and Fugue”) and Fragmentos de apocalipsis (1977; “Fragments of Apocalypse”). He received the Cervantes Prize in ...