Books (see also my author page on Amazon):
- Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media: Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2017). Now in paperback (as of Feb 2021).
- The Return of the Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century, ed. by Andrew B.R. Elliott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Now in paperback (as of 2015).
- Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History, ed. by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Andrew B.R. Elliott (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013).
- Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval Past (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011).
Journal Articles:
- “Satira e sacrilegio nel cinema medievale”, Bianco e Nero cinema journal (a. 82, n. 600, mag-ago 2021), 116-121.
- “Brexit, Medievalism, and the Myth of Nations”, Studies in Medievalism XXIX (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2020), 31-38.
- “Internet Medievalism and the White Middle Ages”, History Compass (invited submission), 16.3 (January 2018), 1-10.
- “Simulations and Simulacra: History in Video Games“, Práticas da História, 5 (2017), 11-41.
- “A Vile Love Affair: Right Wing Nationalism and the Middle Ages“, The Public Medievalist, (February 2017).
- “Arthurian Fragments, Arthurian Mosaics“, Arthuriana, 25.4 (2016), 14-24.
- “Rewriting European History – National and Transnational Identities in HBO’s Rome“, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 33.4 (December 2013), 576-593.
- “…and all is real. Historical Spaces and Special F/X in HBO’s Rome”, Critical Studies in Television, edited by S. Abbott, 8.3 (Autumn/Winter 2013), 65-77.
- “Historical Spaces as Narrative: Mapping Collective Memory onto Cinematic Space”, Media Fields journal, Issue 5 on Memory, Space, Media (August 2012).
- “The Charm of the (Re)Making: Problems in Arthurian Television Serialization”, Arthuriana, 21.4 (2011), 53-67.
Essays in Edited Collections:
- “The Little Crusader Who Demanded His Country Back: Brexit, Crusades and the Daily Express,” forthcoming in The Crusades in the 21st Century, edited by Charlotte Gauthier and Jonathan Phillips (London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
- With Laura Harrison: “Scottish Medievalism and the Promise of Caledonian Independence” in Cinema Medievalia, edited by Kevin J. Harty (forthcoming 2023).
- “Memes, Medievalism, and Global Mimesis”, in Global Medievalisms, ed. by Angela Weisl and Robert Squillace (forthcoming 2023).
- With Mike Horswell: “Pulling Ranke: The Inevitability of Presentism in Teaching Medievalism”, in Decoding Medievalism: Teaching the Medieval in the Modern Age, ed. by Emma Wells and Claire Kennan (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2023).
- “Guy Ritchie, King Arthur, and the Great Conspiracy,” in The Companion to King Arthur, edited by Renée Ward, Victoria Coldham-Fussell and Miriam Edlich-Muth (New York and London: Routledge, 2022).
- “Who Owns the Middle Ages? Participatory Medievalism and Structural Exclusion,” in Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Aspects, edited by Reima Välimäki (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022).
- “#Medieval: Social Media and Participatory Medievalism”, Middle Ages without Borders: an International Conversation on Medievalism, edited by Lila Yawn, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri and Pierre Savy (Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021).
- With Mike Horswell: “Crusading Icons: Medievalism and Authenticity in Historical Digital Games,” in History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past, edited by Felix Zimmermann and Martin Lorber (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020), pp. 137-156.
- “Charlemagne at the Battle of Gettysburg: Video Games and the Middle Ages”, in Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian, edited by Alexander von Lünen, Katherine J. Lewis, Pat Cullum and Benjamin Litherland (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 170-85.
- With Victoria E. Cooper: “In my youth-days I faced battles unnumbered: Beowulf and Video Games”, in Beowulf in Contemporary Culture, ed. by David Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), pp. 51-66.
- “Imagining the Past through Film and Cultural Studies”, in A Necessary Fiction: Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives, ed. by Robert Witcher and Daan Van Helden (London & New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 263-73
- “Gender, Violence and Medievalism in La Passion Béatrice“, in Medieval Women on Film, ed. by Kevin J. Harty (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2020), pp. 116-31.
- “Special Effects and the Biblical Epic“, in New Heart, New Spirit: Perspectives on the Modern Biblical Epic, ed. by Wickham Clayton (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2019), pp. 50-67.
- “Medievalism”, in Handbook of Arthurian Romance: King Arthur’s Court in Medieval European Literature, ed.by Leah Tether and Johnny McFadyen (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 293-306.
- “Our Minds Are in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Watching Starz… Sex, Violence and Dirty Medievalism”, in Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A Game of Thrones, ed. by Helen Young (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015), pp. 99-115.
- “‘We are home’: The Grail and the Quest in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker“, in The Holy Grail on Film: Essays on the Cinematic Quest, ed. by Kevin J. Harty (Jefferson: McFarland, 2015).
- “British Historical Drama and the Middle Ages”, in Upstairs and Downstairs: The British Historical Costume Drama on Television, ed. by Julie Taddeo and James Leggott (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. 113-124.
- “Special Effects, Reality, and the New Epic Film”, in The Return of the Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century, ed. by Andrew B.R. Elliott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014), pp. 129-143.
- “Lucius Artorius Castus as Global Icon: The Modern Uses of the Arthurian Legend”, Lucius Artorius Castus and the King Arthur Legend (Split: Knjizevni Krug Split, 2014), pp. 145-158.
- “Unmasking Marian: Gender, Agency and Violence in Medieval Film”, in Gender, Agency and Violence. European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period to the Modern Day, ed. Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 173-187.
- “Time out of Joint? Why Astérix Fought the Norsemen in Astérix and the Vikings”, in The Vikings on Film: Essays on the Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages, ed. Kevin J. Harty (Jefferson: McFarland, 2011), pp. 165-177.
- “She’s a Goddam Liar: Perspectives on the Truth in Aliens and Titanic”, in The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays, ed. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh (Jefferson: McFarland, 2011), pp. 72-89.
- “From Maciste to Maximus & Co.: The Fragmented Hero in the New Epic”, in Of Muscles and Men: Sword and Sandal Films, ed. Michael G. Cornelius (Jefferson: McFarland, 2011), pp. 58-74.
- “Mr Monk Goes to the Monastery” in Mr. Monk and Philosophy, ed. D.E. Wittkower (Chicago, IL: Open Court Pop Culture and Philosophy, Jan 2010), pp. 169-180.