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Gravois, John – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Recent decades have produced millions of medieval re-enactors, role players, and fantasy buffs -- and billions of dollars for the industries that fuel them. However, writes Gravois, academic medievalists have viewed this engorged popular interest not as an embarrassment of riches, but as simply embarrassment. Yet those same re-enactors, role…
Descriptors: Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Games, Fantasy