Recreating the Medieval Past through Neomedievalism: Knights, Tournaments and Fangirls in Popular Romance

• Published in: Cultural perspectives Vol. 28; no. 28; pp. 163 - 186
• Main Authors: Neconesnic, Noemi, Morăraşu, Nadia-Nicoleta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alma Mater Publishing House 20.12.2023; Editura Alma Mater
• Subjects: American Literature; British Literature; Cultural history; History; Language and Literature Studies; Sociology of Literature; Studies of Literature; knight; neomedievalism; historical romance; tournament; popular culture

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the paradigm of neomedievalism in historical popular romance novels as the process of recreating the medieval past through a combination of character types and medievalist tropes accepted by the readership as iconic. Considering that the typical readers of...