Table of Contents

Introduction Michael A. Cramer


There is No One True Art of the Sword Russell Mitchell


"Forward Into The Past": Re-enactors and the Quest for Authenticity Lisa Evans


Glass on Fire: Temperatures in Reconstructed Viking-era Bead Furnaces Neil Peterson with Sarah Backa, Jean Ross, and Robert Schweitzer


An Iron Smelt in Vinland: An Experimental Investigation Darrell Markewitz


The Chivalric Warrior as Man of His Word Steven Muhlberger


"Seeking That Which Cannot Be Found": The use of Lancelot through Precursor Texts as Contemporary Social Commentary in The Once and Future King Emerson Storm Fillman Richards


Franchise and Chivalric Identity Michael A. Cramer

About the Author

Michael Cramer is a communications professor at the City College of New York, actor and filmmaker. He is the author of A Confederacy of Whores: Media and Politics in George W. Bush's America (2008) and Medieval Fantasy as Performance (2010).

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