Guides: History: Game Studies & Medievalism

Scholarly Journals

Journal Articles

Cook, James. 2016. “Playing with the Past in the Imagined Middle Ages: Music and Soundscape in Video Game.” In Sounding out! The Sound Studies Blog.
San Nicolás Romera, César, Miguel Ángel Nicolás Ojeda, and Josefa Ros Velasco. 2018. “Video Games Set in the Middle Ages.” Games & Culture 13 (5): 521–42.

Watterson, Tess. 2024. “Militarism in Medievalism: The Prince of Thieves Video Game and the Gulf War.” Rethinking History, June, 1–23. doi:10.1080/13642529.2024.2352318.

Books, chapters, and ebooks

Pugh, Tison, and Angela Jane Weisl. 2013. Medievalisms : Making the Past in the Present. Routledge.

Alvestad, Karl, and Robert Houghton, eds. 2021. Middle Ages in Modern Culture : History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism. First edition. New Directions in Medieval Studies. Bloomsbury.

Cook, James. 2020. “Sonic Medievalism, World Building, and Cultural Identity in Fantasy Video Games.” In Politics and Medievalism, edited by Karl Fugelso, 217–38. Studies in Medievalism: 29. Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer; D. S. Brewer.

Medieval & Early Modern Bibliographies
Updated quarterly, this database provides a current bibliography for over 4,500 journals (as well as conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogs) used for research and teaching on the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
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