SO MUCH THIS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES (especially around race & gender) #medievaltwitterhttps://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/998355506153467905 …
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possibly SCA, and other signs of certain kinds of white medievalism. They expect some sort of affective devotion connected to childhood. And for folks who got to medieval things that way, great for them, but it's not the only narrative. I literally have had to explain that I
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Yes I find it so interesting that it’s queer, feminist, and BIPOC medievalists who are often most explicit about taking a path to medieval studies that does NOT take the form of devotional fandom/identification. Our paths tend to take different routes, need more “explaining”
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never dressed up, never went to Medieval Times, wasn't into castles (I'm really not now either, unless I am actually doing an architectural/spatial analysis thing), & no Tolkien or Lewis fan as a child. Instead, it happened in college b/c I liked the way
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the literature, cultural objects, had no fixed rules and experimented all the time. I liked the energy of that experimentation. This is what excites me about the period. This also explains why I am in DH (the possibilities/risk of experiments) and also write about Twitter.
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