Scott Manning

Guest blog post for Boydell & Brewer where they pitch it as "avid fan and medievalist Scott Manning argues how the cult classic, The Transformers: The Movie, is a retelling of the Grail quest and explores why that medieval echo helps explain the film's en…

One day, while reading The Quest for the Holy Grail, I came across a statement by Sir Gawain that made me chuckle: I have slain more than ten knights already, the worst of whom was more than adequate, and still have met with no adventure.

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This essay examines the Shakespearean-inspired rise and fall of Starscream, one of the many robots killed off in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie.

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This page builds on my essay published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018) titled “Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular Culture” (open access!).

One of the most common inspirations I've seen for Joan of Arc book covers is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's 1854 painting entitled Jeanne d'Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de Reims (Joan of Arc at the coronation of King Charles VII, in

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In 1913, Al Ringling kept Joan of Arc as the theme for the 45-minute spectacle that preceded each Ringling Bros. circus show.