The Tales after Tolkien Society is dedicated to exploring how contemporary popular culture constructs and deploys the idea of the medieval. ...

Read the previous entry in this series here .   The accuracy of ideas of the medieval carried forward in popular culture is one that seem...

During my morning reading, I came across an io9  piece by Lauren Davis, " These Medieval-Style Tolkien Illustrations Are Like Nothing W...

The Leeds International Medieval Congress is July 7-10 this year. There is a session themed 'Empire and Medievalist Fantasy' which i...

Jorge Cham's PHD Comics  is a common bit of reading among those in the academic community. In depicting various aspects of life in gradu...

A friend of mine suggested that the Society blog consider Maria Popova's 13 June 2014  Brain Pickings  piece " Vintage Illustration...

Read the previous entry in this series here . Read the next entry in this series here . A few days ago I (Helen here), posted about ...

Undergraduates and those who teach undergraduates, please note the CFP from the Midsouth Undergraduate Research Conference , which calls for...

Read the next entry in this series here .   I've just come across yet another article arguing that "Games of Thrones" isn...

I have asserted on several occasions (such as in papers given at Society sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies ) that t...