Call for Papers: MAMG 2026
Vinicius Marino Carvalho The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester presents The Seventh Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference (@MidAgesModGames, #MAMG26) on 5 to 7 October 2026.…
Vinicius Marino Carvalho
Gaming Beyond the ‘Commons’: Counter-Hegemonic Readings of Medievalist Tropes
By Vinicius Marino Carvalho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Is this the way out? Modern fantasy shares a relatively consistent set of narrative and aesthetic references, roughly informed by medievalist artistic…
Cooperation, conflict, and more-than-human agencies in medieval games
Vinicius Marino Carvalho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Historical agency is, once again, a hot button issue. Developments like the climate emergency and advances in AI prompted many scholars into acknowledging…