Cinema Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film

In one sense the former intention seems sUghtly paradoxical given that the Middle Ages as they appear in films are largely informed by varying modern 'social logics', and so to say anything about the 'social logic(s)' of the Mddle Ages one should start with medieval sources. [...] on first reflection, 'fantasy1 rather seems a point of universality between the medieval and medievaUsm and so to require a practical rather than theoretical approach.