IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1141: Gaming the Medieval: Medievalism in Modern Board Game Culture
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Daisy Black, Department of English Language, TESOL & Applied Linguistics, Swansea University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Stephen Gordon, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
Paper 1141-a | Enchanted Board: Gender and Submerged Narratives in Arthurian Play (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General |
Paper 1141-b | 'Determine the destiny of a kingdom!': The Sweep of the First Millennium in Britannia the Board Game (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1141-c | Huff, Bluff, and Blow the House Down: Deception and Internalized Destabilization in Shadows over Camelot and Resistance: Avalon (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General |
Paper 1141-d | Why the Countess Can't be Trusted with the King: Performing Medieval Male and Female Hierarchies in Modern Board Game Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Since the 1980s, the medieval has been a fertile source of narrative concept, artwork, and structure in popular board and card game culture. While games frequently employ concepts of conquest and expansion, they also engage with medieval social and literary practices, including religious and secular hierarchies and chivalric narrative. Yet while games with medieval subject matter grace the board game award tables, they often overlooked by studies in medievalism. Engaging with approaches from history, literature, and gender studies, this session aims to expand medievalism debates by examining how board games produce new methods of intersecting with the medieval past. |