Call for Papers: MAMG @ Leeds IMC 2027
Blair Apgar ‘Communities’ Leeds IMC 2027 – Call for Papers The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games…
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Framing the Other Within: Sebhat of Sadai, Narrative Inversion, and Ethiopian Manuscript Aesthetics in Pentiment
By Blair Apgar (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) “I know Tassing seems big to you, but the world is so much bigger than we can imagine.” – Brother Sebhat, Pentiment As…
Returning to an Imagined Past: How Game Mods Reinforce Anachronistic Medieval Fantasy
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…