Category: Bibliographies
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Joan of Arc on Screen: An Annotated Bibliography
Robin Blaetz said it best: “As one of history’s few noted heroines, Joan of Arc’s cinematic incarnations provide a fascinating record of manipulation according to differing historical and cultural demands.” There are far too many Joan of Arc movies to list here, but the most common ones in these papers and books are Joan the Woman…
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Arthurian Legend on Screen: An Annotated Bibliography
As John Aberth pointed out, “There are more books about Arthurian films than perhaps about any other medieval film genre.” This still holds true today and the same goes for articles. This is arguably where the field of cinematic medievalism go its start. While there are some Arthurian aspects mentioned in the larger Medievalism on…
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Medievalism on Screen: An Annotated Bibliography
Although the field of medievalism on screen is fairly young, there is already a massive amount of work on the topic in English alone. By medievalism, I am referring to recreations or evocations of the Middle Ages, purposefully or unwittingly. By screen, I am referring to movies, television, and short form content. I’m maintaining this…
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8 Books for the Military History Undergrad
The size of my library ebbs and flows, but it is currently pushing 600 books. I collected most of them during the past four years, as I worked on a military history degree. The focus was vast, covering the ancient Egyptians all the way to the Libyan Civil War. While I have used all of…
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50 Books on World War II Recommended by John Keegan
At the end of his book, The Second World War, John Keegan offers a list of 50 books in English that “together provide a comprehensive picture of the most important events and themes of the war, which are readable and from which the general reader can derive his own picture of the war as a…