Middle Ages in popular culture

500-1500 CE settings in books, tv and film

The 1922 film poster for Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks 1941 comic adaptation of Walter Scott's 1819 novel, Ivanhoe

Representations of the Middle Ages frequently occur in cultural media, from literature, drama, and film to comics, reenactment, and video games. Examples include:

General

* Historical reenactment
* Medievalism and Neo-medievalism
* Middle Ages in film
* Dark Ages in modern non-scholarly use

Early Middle Ages

* List of translations and artistic depictions of Beowulf

* King Arthur in various media
* Lady Godiva in popular culture
* Irish mythology in popular culture
* Vikings in popular culture
* Viking revival
* Norse mythology in popular culture

High Middle Ages

* Knights Templar and popular culture
* Robin Hood in popular culture
* List of films and television series featuring Robin Hood

Late Middle Ages

* Knight-errant
* Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc

Islamic Golden Age

* Scheherazade in popular culture
* One Thousand and One Nights in world culture

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European Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages|

* Migration Period
* Decline of the Western Roman Empire
* Barbarian kingdoms
* Late antiquity
* Decline of Hellenistic religion
* Christianity in the Middle Ages
* Christianization
* Rise of Islam
* Papal States
* First Bulgarian Empire
* Frankish Empire
* Principality of Serbia
* Duchy of Croatia
* Anglo-Saxon England
* Viking Age
* Carolingian Empire
* Old Church Slavonic
* Rise of the Venetian Republic
* Civitas Schinesghe
* Kievan Rus'
* Growth of the Eastern Roman Empire
* Reconquista

High Middle Ages|

* Norman Conquest
* Holy Roman Empire
* Second Bulgarian Empire
* Georgian Empire
* Kingdom of Poland
* Kingdom of Serbia
* Kingdom of Croatia
* Feudalism
* Rise of the Republic of Genoa
* Great Schism
* Investiture Controversy
* Crusades
* Republic of Florence
* Scholasticism
* Capet–Plantagenet feud
* Monasticism
* Communalism
* Manorialism
* Medieval Warm Period
* Mongol invasion of Europe
* Kingdom of Portugal

Late Middle Ages|

* Hundred Years' War
* Wars of the Roses
* Hussite Wars
* Burgundy
* Milan
* France
* England
* Serbian Empire
* Castile
* Western Schism
* Fall of Constantinople
* Rise of the Ottoman Empire
* Swiss mercenaries
* Chivalry
* Renaissance Humanism
* Universities
* Crisis of the late Middle Ages
* Great Famine
* Little Ice Age

Culture|

* Agriculture
* Architecture
* Art
* Church and State
* Cuisine
* Crusading movement
* Dance
* Demography
* Domes
* Hastilude
* Household
* Hunting
* In popular culture
* Itinerant court
* Literature
* Medicine
* Minstrel
* Music
* Instruments
* Philosophy
* Poetry
* Science
* Slavery
* Technology
* Theatre
* Warfare
* Women

Related|

* Medieval anthropology
* Dark Ages
* Disability in the Middle Ages
* Basic topics list
* Land terms
* Medievalism
* Medieval reenactment
* Medieval studies
* Misconceptions
* Neo-medievalism
* Peasant Wars
* Post-classical history
* Timeline
* Historiography in the Middle Ages
* Medieval archaeology

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