{"title":"'Men shal nat maken ernest of game': The Knights of the Alt-Right","authors":"Laurie A. Finke, Martin B. Shichtman","doi":"10.1353/art.2022.0039","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the ways in which alt-right groups appropriate and exploit the figure of the medieval knight. Because the alt-right relies heavily on social media to get out its message, this essay offers teachers some methods for interrogating the visual rhetoric of medieval knighthood presented by the alt-right, to unpack the memes and lulz, trolling and remixing that constitute alt-right medievalism. (LF and MBS)","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"32 1","pages":"61 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arthuriana","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2022.0039","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay explores the ways in which alt-right groups appropriate and exploit the figure of the medieval knight. Because the alt-right relies heavily on social media to get out its message, this essay offers teachers some methods for interrogating the visual rhetoric of medieval knighthood presented by the alt-right, to unpack the memes and lulz, trolling and remixing that constitute alt-right medievalism. (LF and MBS)
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Arthuriana publishes peer-reviewed, on-line analytical and bibliographical surveys of various Arthurian subjects. You can access these e-resources through this site. The review and evaluation processes for e-articles is identical to that for the print journal . Once accepted for publication, our surveys are supported and maintained by Professor Alan Lupack at the University of Rochester through the Camelot Project.