{"title":"Accessing Videogames for Medieval Studies Course Plans: Four Points of Entry","authors":"Stephen Yeager","doi":"10.5070/nc3.41529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc3.41529","url":null,"abstract":"From Crowther and Wood's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure to the top games of 2024, the virtual worlds of videogames have been commonly set in worlds based loosely or closely on European history and literature dated 500-1500 CE. Modern subjects have long instrumentalized the symbolic vocabulary of medieval history and romance for representing to themselves the embodied, affective experience of inhabiting virtual, mediated environments, which videogames have also taken up as one of their major subjects. Studying this medievalism in videogames does not only provide instructors and students with a way of accessing medieval history, but also with a way of contextualizing the importance of that history in relation to a major twenty-first century expressive form. This essay identifies four points of entry for instructors, including the narrative concept of adventure, the interrelationship between videogame death and the gothic, and the lore recorded in the rogue archives of videogame fandom.","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://escholarship.org/content/qt46h4j72g/qt46h4j72g.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147881274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History of the International Piers Plowman Society","authors":"L. Bishop","doi":"10.5070/nc34160691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34160691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116516202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students and Teachers: An Interview with Aranye Fradenburg Joy","authors":"Kathy Lavezzo, Aranye Fradenburg Joy","doi":"10.5070/nc34158760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34158760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114699394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nurturing Undergraduate Research: Reflections on the Moravian Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2006-2021","authors":"Sandy Bardsley, J. Black","doi":"10.5070/nc34159606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34159606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114735972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How I Teach the Canterbury Tales","authors":"E. Scala","doi":"10.5070/nc34159789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34159789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114370856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogy and Pizarro","authors":"Edward Currie, J. Geller","doi":"10.5070/nc34160735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34160735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"8 21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124803672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How I teach medieval concepts of performance with Christina Fitzgerald’s The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants","authors":"E. Lipton","doi":"10.5070/nc34159805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34159805","url":null,"abstract":"Emma Lipton, professor of English at the University of Missouri, reflects on the classes she teaches to both medievalist graduate students and students from other areas, and on how to teach to such a wide range of students that have different interests and goals when they take her classes. Lipton gives the example of a seminar she teaches on the York Plays and examines her methods of teaching this class in order to focus on medieval studies and performance theory, but also to create transferable skills that can be useful for students from different areas.","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133104587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Barrington, L. Lampert-Weissig, K. Little, Eva von Contzen
{"title":"Editors' Introduction: Teaching, Scholarship, and the Living Archive","authors":"C. Barrington, L. Lampert-Weissig, K. Little, Eva von Contzen","doi":"10.5070/nc34160675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34160675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115191323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derek Pearsall as a Teacher: A Brief Memoir","authors":"D. Hirsch","doi":"10.5070/nc34160694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34160694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124341375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surviving and Thriving in Secondary Schools: A Response to the Cluster on “Medieval Studies and Secondary Education”","authors":"Alex Mueller","doi":"10.5070/nc34160678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34160678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447995,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124806393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}