AustLit

The information in Australian Popular Medievalism can be searched, exported and downloaded for further analysis.

The following sample searches are available:

– All texts in this dataset

– Medievalist fantasy sorted by title

– Historical fiction sorted by title

– Romance fiction sorted by title

Medievalist texts in the collection were identified and rated by the interrogation:

• Were the representations of the medieval direct (as they are in historical fiction) or indirect (as they are in, say, fantasy fiction)?
• Was the penetration of medieval ideas (called 'importance' in the subset) high, medium, or low?

For example, for representations, Sara Douglass's Battleaxe scored Indirect but had a High rating for penetration of medieval ideas, whereas Richard Harland's The Black Crusade had Direct references but a Low rating for penetration of medieval ideas.