Joan of Arc Panels at Kalamazoo 2020
The official program for 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies is now live! The International Joan of Arc Society has two panels organized by Tara Beth Smithson and yours truly. We are...
View ArticleWarriors “Hedgehogged” in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine
I'm thrilled to share that my paper on warriors riddled with arrows found in medieval Muslim/Christian chronicles, comics, films, and television, can be read in the latest volume of This Year’s Work in...
View ArticleA Flower in a Field of Lions: The Trials of Joan of Arc
In 2018, I had the privilege of writing the afterword for Tapestry Comics' graphic novel A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Story of Joan of Arc. The editor has allowed me to publish the complete text...
View ArticleA Hedgehog of Arrows in Zack Snyder’s Justice League
In a paper published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism, I followed the trend of depicting living armored warriors covered with arrows from medieval chronicles to Samurai films to comic books. The image...
View ArticleChanneling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)
This week, The Year’s Work in Medievalism published my paper “Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)” examining the latest Doom movie directed by Tony Giglio. It is available for free via...
View ArticleCFP-Teaching Joan of Arc and Her World in and out of the Classroom
Call for Papers sponsored by The International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2023)May 11 to 13, 2023 Western...
View ArticleRingling Bros. Joan of Arc Spectacle Newspaper Ad (1913)
In 1913, Al Ringling kept Joan of Arc as the theme for the 45-minute spectacle that preceded each Ringling Bros. circus show. That meant that targeted towns saw a lot of Joan of Arc-related advertising...
View ArticleIngres’s Joan of Arc Painting (1854)
One of the most common inspirations I've seen for Joan of Arc book covers is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's 1854 painting entitled Jeanne d'Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de Reims...
View ArticleMore Warriors Hedgehogged in Arrows in Popular Culture
This page builds on my essay published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018) titled “Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular...
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