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		<title>I Spent 10 Years Calculating How Bored the Knights Were on the Quest for the Holy Grail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One day, while reading The Quest for the Holy Grail, I came across a statement by Sir Gawain that made me chuckle: I have slain more than ten knights already, the worst of whom was more than adequate, and still have met with no adventure. In what world does someone trek through the wilderness, kill [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Transformers: The Movie (1986) &#8211; An Annotated Bibliography</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2026, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) celebrates its 40th anniversary. Although it was originally a film made with the intention to market toys to children, it has had a lasting cultural impact. The scholarly work on the film is continuing to grow and this bibliography will update as more works are published. I'll also [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This essay examines the Shakespearean-inspired rise and fall of Starscream, one of the many robots killed off in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie. Originally released with the intent to market toys to children, Hasbro saw death in the film as a practical approach to write off characters of discontinued toys. This essay examines [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Publisher DetailsTable of Contents Publisher Details Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024) Pages: 386Bibliographic Info: 73 photos, notes, bibliography, index Purchase: McFarland &#124; Amazon This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More Warriors Hedgehogged in Arrows in Popular Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 Culture” (open access!). The basic thesis is that the image of a living warrior covered in arrows was once relegated to medieval chronicles on the Crusades, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ingres&#8217;s Joan of Arc Painting (1854)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 (Joan of Arc at the coronation of King Charles VII, in the Reims Cathedral). This piece is displayed prominently at the Louvre [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Historial Jeanne d&#8217;Arc in Rouen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inspiration for the Cauldrons at Kamar-Taj in Dr. Strange in Multiverse of Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Strange and America Chavez are on the run from the Scarlet Witch, and they naturally seek refuge at the Kamar-Taj. This fictional place in Katmandu, Nepal is where Strange and other sorcerers trained. There is plenty to look at in the set, which is a hodgepodge [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ringling Bros. Joan of Arc Spectacle Newspaper Ad (1913)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 like this one in the Taunton Daily Gazette (June 7). Ads like these appeared in newspapers all over America in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Publisher DetailsReviewsTable of Contents Publisher Details Scott Manning (London: Rowman &#38; Littlefield, 2023) Pages: i-xviii, 281Bibliographic Info: Map, chronology, appendix, bibliography, index Purchase: Rowman &#38; Littlefield &#124; Amazon Joan of Arc is the most recognizable woman from medieval Europe, yet the details of her life remain obscure to the general public while heavily debated by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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