The following are Scott’s published writings in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, magazines, and graphic novels. If you need a copy of anything, happy to share.
Books
Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages
Co-edited with Kevin J. Harty. McFarland, 2024. Amazon
This collection of nineteen newly commissioned, original essays on medieval cinema is published coincidentally with the twenty-fifth anniversary of McFarland’s publication of Kevin J. Harty’s The Reel Middle Ages. The essays offer in-depth studies of nearly three dozen films, along with shorter discussions of other examples of cinema medievalia. Their authors hail from Australia, Canada, England, France, Iceland, Scotland, and the United States, and these authors bring to their essays a variety of backgrounds and approaches to the films that they discuss. Those films include silent films, animated films, films in black and white, films in technicolor—in all, the essays discuss a century of cinema depictions of the Middle Ages from the 1920s to 2021.
François Amy de la Bretèque, Babel 50 (2024)
“Cette nouvelle anthologie affiche une ambition supérieure aux précédentes en ce qu’elle vise à dépasser le simple regroupement thématique afin de poser des questions de méthode et de théorie de la représentation historique au cinéma.”
Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to her Life and Works
London: Rowman & Littlefield (now Bloomsbury), 2023. Amazon
Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide of Her Life and Works focuses on her life, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, groups, places, events, topics, terms, and medieval documents central to Joan’s life including her letters, contemporary perspectives, her condemnation trial, and the nullification proceedings eventually blessed by the pope to overturn the verdict of the condemnation trial. This book aims to provide an understanding not just of Joan, but of the culture that produced and ultimately destroyed her.
Craig Taylor, The Medieval Review
“The crucial point is that Manning has written for those beginning their investigations into the history of Joan of Arc. His book is an extremely helpful resource for students and for those who are starting to read about Joan”
Gail Orgelfinger, author of Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829
“The first comprehensive compilation of people, places, and events associated with Joan of Arc’s life and culture in English.”
Library Journal
“Comprehensive and accessible to casual and serious readers alike.”
Choice Reviews
“Using this book, it will be easy for undergraduates to identify key resources to learn more on Joan of Arc and related topics. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.”
Forthcoming Essays
“Joan of Arc AI in Time Gate (1989): A Medieval Simulacrum in the Twenty-second Century,” Studies in Medievalism XXXV (Forthcoming, 2026).
“Sharing Joan of Arc with Lifelong Learners at a Fortune 50 Tech Company,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (Accepted for Publication).
“Joan of Arc on Screen,” Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages (Arc Humanities Press), Accepted for Publication.
Journal Articles, Chapters in Edited Volumes
“The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986),” Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration 10.2 (Winter 2025): 10-18.
“Sans Aventure: Knights with No Adventure Worth Recording in the Queste del saint Graal,” Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies 35.4 (2025): 76-100.
“Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986),” Studies in Medievalism XXXIV (2025): 192-212.
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“Making Padanians: Barbarossa (2009) and Repurposing the Myth of the Lombard League,” Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages, eds. Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024), 163-180.
“Armored Warriors Full of Arrows: From Obscure Crusader and Arabic Texts to Marvel’s Wolverine,” Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations, ed. Douglas Brode (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024), 38-49.
“3000 Miles to Rouen: Joan of Arc on Horseback,” Saints and Sinners on Horseback, vol. 1, ed. Miriam A. Bibby (Trivent Publishing, 2023), 257-283.
“Joan of Arc’s Gunpowder Artillery in Cecil B. DeMille’s Joan the Woman (1916),” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 51.1 (2022): 18-31.
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“Wonder Woman Revisited: Increasing the Drama with Classical Reception in New 52’s Justice League,” The DC Comics Universe: Critical Essays, ed. Douglas Brode (Jefferson: McFarland, 2022), 214-224.
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“Fit for Print, Not for Spectacle: Ringling Bros. and the Careful Exploitation of Joan of Arc,” Studies in Medievalism XXX (2021): 229-252.
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Scott Manning’s fascinating essay on the Ringling Bros. Circus’s spectacle about Joan of Arc’s life concludes the collection.
Marina Gerzić, University of Western Australia, Parergon 40.1 (2023)
“Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019),” The Year’s Work in Medievalism 34 (2019): 18-31.
“Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular Culture,” The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018): 62-77.
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Other Publications
“‘…Otherwise, You Will be Massacred’: The Battle of Jargeau.” Medieval Warfare 9, no. 2 (2019): 6-11.
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Afterword to A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Trials of Joan of Arc [Graphic Novel] (Phoenix: Tapestry Comics, 2018).
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“Churchill’s Efforts to Feed Germany after the Great War,” Finest Hour 145 (Winter 2009-10): 24-26.
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Published Books Reviews
Elizabeth Allyn Woock, Medieval Spaces in Comics: Affect and Ideology (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), Arthuriana 35.4 (2025): 134-135.
Katherine J. Chen, Joan of Arc: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2022), Arthuriana 33.2 (2023): 180-182.
Gail Orgelfinger, Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829 (Penn State University Press, 2019), Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 2019, H2.
“The Case for Benjamin Rush,” review of Stephen Fried, Rush (Crown, 2018) and Harlow Giles Unger, Dr. Benjamin Rush (Da Capo, 2018), Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 2018, H2.
Paul B. Sturtevant, The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination: Memory, Film and Medievalism (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2018, H2.
Jonathan Schneer, Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet (Basic Books, 2014), The Journal of Military History 80.4 (October 2016): 1264-1266.
Anne Curry, Great Battles: Agincourt (Oxford University Press, 2015), Philadelphia Inquirer, November 15, 2015, H4.
Barry Strauss, The Death of Caesar (Simon & Schuster, 2015), Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15, 2015, H4.
“Retracing steps to the Great War,” review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (HarperCollins, 2013), Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 2013, H9.
Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History (University Press of New England, 2008), On Point: The Journal of Army History 15.3 (Winter 2010), 61.