For this volume of Studies in Medievalism, the editor asked contributors ＂to write about the influence of corporate entities on post-medieval interpretations of the Middle Ages.＂ Topics
addressed by the six resulting papers include parallels between modern businesses and medieval monasteries, the resurgence of the medieval as a model for corporate ethics, guilds of players and
other corporate experiences within medievalist video games, representations of medieval economic and class structures in medievalist films and their relationship to contemporary social and
financial conditions, and the recognition/denial dynamic governing corporate/community relationships in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy fiction series A Song of Ice and Fire. The volume includes
a further six contributions not related to the selected theme, discussing such topics as the paleography of early medieval musical notation, racial Anglo-Saxonisms in Charles Kingsley’s lecture
series The Roman and the Teuton (1864) and novel Hereward the Wake: ＂Last of the English＂ (1866), shifting roles in the cinematic sign of the grail, and the treatment of women in medievalist
films in relationship to vengeance. D.S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
