Those of us who teach the Middle Ages today are likely to be familiar with Medievalism, namely, the appropriation of beliefs, ideas, methods, styles, and worldviews common to the period roughly between 500 and 1500 CE in western Europe in any later historical period except what has been designated as “the Middle Ages,” denoting, according to Petrarch, the period between classical antiquity and its alleged Renaissance in Italy and England. The OED defines Medievalism as “The system of belief and practice characteristic of the Middle Ages […] the adoption of or devotion to mediaeval ideals or usages; occas. An instance of this.” The journal Studies in Medievalism has for some thirty years published individual issues that traced specific aspects of medievalism in the later literature, music, art and architecture, etc., of specific countries or languages. In the previous annual volume, Tom Shippey – who followed Leslie Workman as editor of Studies in Medievalism – described medievalism in his new essay “Medievalisms and Why They Matter” as “Any post-medieval attempt to re-imagine the Middle Ages, or some aspect of the Middle Ages, for the modern world, in any of many different media; especially in academic usage, the study of the development and significance of such attempts.”