Suzanne Edwards' edited volume with Matthew X. Vernon highlights women's medievalism which has often been silenced
When imagining the Middle Ages, jousting arenas, turkey legs, and knights in shining armor often come to mind. However, this masculine, Westernized view of the medieval period excludes a wealth of diverse narratives and perspectives. Suzanne Edwards is changing that with a volume of essays on women’s medievalism that she’s co-editing with Matthew X. Vernon.
“Medievalism includes representations of the Middle Ages in any moment after the Middle Ages from Spenser’s sixteenth-century The Faerie Queene to the movie Camelot or even Games of Thrones,” Edwards, professor of English, explains, naming a few popular examples. Historically, scholarship on medievalism has often focused on the works of white male authors like Tennyson, T.H. White, and Tolkien.