Call for Papers MAMG @ MAMO 2025
Rob Houghton The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games (MAMG) strand at The Middle Ages in the…
Call for Papers: MAMG @ Leeds IMC 2025
The Middle Ages in Modern Games: ‘Worlds of Learning’ The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern…
MAMG @ Leeds IMC 2024
We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 18 papers in person and online spread over two days of…
Field of Glory Day 2024
We were delighted to participate in Slitherine Games‘ Field of Glory Day as part of the fifth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on 4 June 2024. From Slitherine…
Five Years of the Middle Ages in Modern Games
Robert Houghton (University of Winchester) So, this is the end of the fifth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous conference. Once again, we’ve had an impressive range of papers from…
The Sonic Environments of Medieval(ist) Games
Karen Cook Karen Cook (Hartt School, University of Hartford) This keynote is culled from a chapter forthcoming in Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes, eds.…
Who is the Real Enemy? The Races of Elves and Giants in God of War (2018)
Renata Lesniakiewicz-Drzymala Renata Leśniakiewicz-Drzymała (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) In Norse mythology, apart from Gods and Men, there are also other races, including Elves and Giants. Elves are traditionally seen as luminous beings associated…
Bandits and thieves in RPGs: dehumanization and heroization of the criminal
Albert Leparc Albert Leparc (Paris-Sorbonne University) Hi ! For my second paper for the MAMG, I’d like to give a broad-brush approach on my research about the most common – if not…
The ‘Playersexuality’ Debate: Love, Romance, Identity, and Player Perceptions of Baldur’s Gate 3 and the Dragon Age Series
Christine Tomlinson Christine Tomlinson (University of California, Irvine & University of Southern Denmark) Contemporary videogames increasingly emphasize agency for players, which is limited by the parameters of the game’s design. Role-playing games…
Returning to an Imagined Past: How Game Mods Reinforce Anachronistic Medieval Fantasy
Blair Apgar Blair Apgar (Elon University) Video games set in traditional fantasy worlds often draw inspiration from the Middle Age; though still largely divorced from academic conceptualizations of the period, modern titles…