IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 236: Medievalism in the Modern World, I: Far-Right Entanglements

Organiser:	Eleanor Cox, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:	Jasmin Higgs, Department of English, University of Nottingham
Paper 236-a	'We're Coming Home!': Viking References on Danish Social Media during UEFA Euro 2020 (Language: English) Brian Egede-Pedersen, Independent Scholar, Nykøbing Falster Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities
Paper 236-b	Appropriating Romantic Rhetoric in White Nationalist Medievalisms (Language: English) Vanessa Iacocca, Department of English, Purdue University Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities
Paper 236-c	Nationalism and 'Anglo-Saxonism': Culture and Identity in 1970s and 1980s North American Beowulf Adaptations (Language: English) Simon Heller, Faculty of English, University of Oxford Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	The papers are exploring the use and abuse of medieval history within far-right groups to explore how and why this history is exploited and to what ends. Brian Egede-Pedersen's paper investigates the use of Viking references in Danish social media during UEFA 2020 to see whether the Vikings can be reclaimed from the far-right hands. Vanessa Iacocca's paper traces connections between contemporary white nationalist medievalisms and the Romantic medievalisms of James Macpherson and his immediate successors.