Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The continuing fascination for the medieval -- Introduction: Dubrovnik and Game of Thrones -- Medievalism and the media -- Heritage tourism -- The medieval world -- Theoretical frameworks -- The medieval as a shared heritage -- Authenticity and anachronism -- Eco's medieval typology -- Pretext/context for a narrative -- Ironical revisitation -- Barbaric age -- The Romantic Middle Ages -- National identities -- Decadence -- So-called tradition -- The expectation of the millennium -- Tourism imaginaries -- Mediatisation and intertextuality -- Aims and objectives of this book -- References -- Chapter 2: Gazing at the Gothic: Medievalism and tourism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Introduction: the Eglinton Tournament -- Literary foundations -- Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott, 1819) -- Romanticising the medieval through events -- Gothic architecture -- The Pre-Raphaelites and the reimagining of medieval art -- The Vikings revived -- Medieval imaginaries outside Europe -- The Woolworth Building, New York -- Medieval literature and legends in the New World -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain, 1889) -- The Vikings in America -- Into the twentieth century -- References -- Chapter 3: Medieval kingship: Hollow crown or tower of strength? -- Introduction -- The complex king - Alfred the Great -- The flawed king - Henry II -- The rehabilitated king - Richard III -- The good king - King Arthur -- The king is dead, long live the king -- References -- Chapter 4: The princess in the tower?: Changing representations of medieval women -- Introduction: pretty in pink -- Beyond the damsel in distress -- Fictional medieval women - a growing complexity -- Queen Guinevere.

Maid Marian -- Game of Thrones -- The Letter for the King -- The Disney princess -- The female warrior -- Where are the real women? -- The new princess -- References -- Chapter 5: Medieval knights and chivalry -- Introduction: A Knight's Tale (2001) -- The evolution of knighthood -- The age of chivalry -- The chivalric cycle in cinema of the 1950s -- Ivanhoe (1952) -- Prince Valiant (1954) -- King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) -- The Black Knight (1954) -- The Court Jester (1955) -- Changing representations of knights and chivalry in cinema -- The Seventh Seal (1957) -- The War Lord (1965) -- The modern cinematic imagery of knighthood -- Game of Thrones (2011-2019) -- Knights as warriors -- Medieval battles on screen -- Ivanhoe (1952) -- Game of Thrones (George Martin, 1996) -- Practicing warrior-craft: tournaments -- The military decline of knights -- References -- Chapter 6: Medieval castles and walled cities -- Introduction -- The historical development of castles -- Media representations of castles -- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett, 1989) -- Castle tourism -- Warwick Castle -- Alnwick Castle -- Chinon Castle -- Walled towns -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Positioning medieval cathedrals in the modern era -- Introduction -- The medieval cathedral -- Cathedral tourism -- Keeping the doors open -- The cathedral as a film set -- Cathedrals in fictional media -- The cathedral as an event space -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Robin Hood: Reinterpreting the medieval outlaw -- Introduction -- The Outlaw Myth -- Ballads and festivals -- Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott, 1819) -- Robin Hood (1922) -- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) -- The children's Robin Hood of the 1950s and 1960s -- Robin and Marian (1976) -- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) -- Robin Hood (2010) -- Robin Hood (2018).

Locational dissonance and Robin Hood movies -- The tourism geography of Robin Hood -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: The hammer of the gods?: Contested and changing imaginaries of the Vikings -- Introduction -- Vikings in the popular media -- Prince Valiant (1954) -- The Vikings (1958) -- The Long Ships (1964) -- The Norseman (1978) -- The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell, 2004) -- Vikings (2013-2021) -- Medieval York, Jorvik and the commodification of the Vikings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Encounters with the 'Other': Crusaders and Muslims in medieval narratives -- Medieval Córdoba -- The Crusades -- Media representation of the Crusades -- The Crusades (1935) -- El Cid (1961) -- Kingdom of Heaven (2005) -- Knightfall (2017-2019) -- Robin Hood (2018) -- The Muslim in the West -- Westerners as the savage Other -- Tourism on the Muslim-European frontier -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Japan and medievalism: The samurai, cinema and cultural appropriation -- Introduction -- Japan's medieval cast: samurai, ninja and ronin -- Seven Samurai (1954) -- Further samurai productions -- Reimagining and appropriating medieval Japan -- Japanese appropriation of the medieval -- Medieval Japan and tourism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Fictional media and heritage from the medieval perspective: Trends, issues and setting a research agenda -- Introduction: the battle at Battle -- New media and a renewed focus on the medieval -- Mouvance or intertextuality -- The decay factor for media-induced heritage tourism -- Medievalism in a global world -- Invention and authenticity -- The changing nature of the hero -- The narrative of everyday life -- Eco's medievalisms revisited -- A young person's Middle Ages -- Some final words -- References -- Chapter 13: Filmography -- Index.