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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The programme for our next asynchronous MAMG conference is live! We are very much looking forward to a batch of incredibly interesting papers! As always, our conference is held virtually at the following address: middleagesinmoderngames.net

The Middle Ages in Modern Games 2026
Possible worlds / Possible pasts
Conference programme
All times UTC + 1
Monday October 5th
9h45 – Opening Address. Vinicius Marino Carvalho and Tess Watterson
10h – Keynote Lecture

‘Why we play the Middle Ages? A proposition for engaged thinking
– Leandro Wallace
Monday October 5th
Session 1 - Design case studies

14h – ‘KAFLI 141”: An Interactive and Immersive Heritage Gamification Experience of the Acoustics of Lögberg, Þingvellir National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Iceland)’
– Emilio Marx & Ginebra Raventós de Volart, Acoustic Heritage Collective

14h20 – ‘Playing the Irish Annals: Narrative Agency and the Gamic Mode of History’
– Vinicius Marino Carvalho

14h40 – ‘Sources and Serendipity: Experimenting with randomisation and medievalism’
- James Baillie
Session 2 - Modding

16h – ‘Reconquering Lloegyr in Crusader Kings III: Modding as a counterfactual historiographical exercise’
– Maxime Kremer
16h20 – ‘Skyrim Puzzles Mods: Finding Indie Freedom within Mainstream Gaming’ – Andrew Griffiths
Session 3 – Ecology and the Non-Human

18h – ‘Tides of Pestilence: Mechanizing Eco-Anxiety within a Fourteenth-Century Dystopia’
– Blair Apgar

18h20 – ‘The wilderness, self-reliance and community in Medieval Dynasty’
– Poppy Tester

18h40 – ‘Temporal Experience and Medieval Contemplation in The Longing’
- Jéssica Iolanda Bispo

Tuesday October 6th
Session 4 – Time and death

10h – ‘Possible Medieval Pandemics? How A Plague Tale Constructs a Playable Apocalypse’
– Ron Heckler

10h20 – ‘Death as Procedure: Sacred Language and Undead Labour in Graveyard Keeper’
– Baykar Demir
Session 5 – Analogue perspectives

12h – ‘Possibles Lives: An Autoethnographic Journey into a Lifetime Engagement with One TTRPG/LARP’
– Anastasija Ropa

12h20 – ‘From “Docufiction” to “Lawplay” — On Speculative Engagement with Early Medieval Law’
- Thom Gobbitt
12h40 – ‘The Dark Ages over Innistrad: Medievalism and Gothic Horror intersection in Magic the Gathering’
– Jakub Ivanecky
Session 6 – Morality & Ideology I

14h – ‘Between Feudalism and Empire: Liminal Temporality and (un)Grounded Aesthetics in Final Fantasy XVI’
- Johansen Quijano
14h20 – ‘Reimagining Medievalism in Chinese-Language Games: Wind Fantasy III and IV’ – Quangang Li

14h40 – ‘Medievalisms and Opposition to Institutionalised Religion in Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One’ – Hannah Victoria
Session 7 – Lore analysis & in-game histories

16h– ‘Reading the Response to Bero’s Speech in Skyrim as a historical text’
– Phillip Wallinder

16h20 – ‘“Some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures”: Invisible Trade Networks and Possible Worlds in The Elder Scrolls Series’
– Ricardo Santana

16h40 – ‘When an era comes to an end: agency, memory and micro-history in Pentiment’
- Ian Regueiro-Salcedo
Wednesday October 7th
Session 8 – Gender

10h– ‘Queens of Hell: Kleopatra, Lilith, and Possible Pasts in Medieval Fantasy Games’
– Kurtis Pope

Wednesday October 7th
10h20 – ‘‘I do not seek a marquis title but peaceful seas’: The imagination of an alternative Chinese maritime history in Uncharted Waters IV’
- Hanjun Shi
Session 9 – Nostalgia and Presentism

12h – ‘Between the Hearth and the Kremlin - Nostalgic Entanglements: Gender, Affect, andMateriality in Digital Depictions of Medieval Rus’’
– Kristina Wittkamp

12h20 – ‘Virtual Battles for the Past: Medievalism as Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War’
Yaraslau Kot

12h40 – ‘When the Past Returns as the Future: Video Games, Roman Imaginaries, and Historical Possibilities’
Lu Yahuai
Session 10 – Alchemy and Deviance

14h – ‘The Sign Is Added Later: Blood Magic and the Moralisation of Possible Worlds’
- Peter Färberböck
14h20 – ‘Agendered Alchemy? Postmodern Rebis Analysis in Elden Ring
– Marcus Jensen

14h40 – ‘The Problem with Paladins: Eulogising Crusaders in CRPGs’ – Robert Houghton

15h – Closing Remarks
- Vinicius Marino Carvalho and Tess Watterson

The conference will be held asynchronously at the following address:
https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We're heading to the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference in Oxford (22-24 Jun 2027) with a strand around Adaptation and Translation! Find our Call for Papers with deadline 13 September here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

Adaptation and Translation play an increasingly important role within medievalist games. Medieval texts and medievalist books and films have been adapted to produce a growing range of games with recent titles influenced by such diverse texts as Beowulf, Dante, Kingdom of Heaven and the Name of the Rose. Recent years have also seen a growing trend towards the translation of medievalist games into multiple languages, often introducing different perspectives of the period to new audiences. Modders and homebrew game designers have often taken the lead on both these developments, while translation and linguistic boundaries have appeared as a game mechanic in several medievalist games. Meanwhile, studies into medievalist games have continued to fall into distinct schools divided by language.

This strand addresses engagement with adaptation and translation within and around games. We invite papers of 20 minutes addressing any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any forms of digital or tabletop games, but we particularly welcome contributions which engage with ‘Adaptation’ and ‘Translation’ broadly defined.

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):

Translation as game mechanic
Adaptation of medievalist works to ludic format
Game mods
Translating medievalist games
Scholarship across languages
Roleplay
Transposing games into different periods
Global approaches to medievalist games
Ludic medievalist influences beyond games
Pedagogy through commercial games
Medieval and ancient languages in games
Cultural appropriation and reclamation
Queering medievalist stories through play

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and brief biographies, to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 13 September.

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Cartogriffi @cartogriffi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Last month I had a fantastic time participating in the @midagesmodgames.bsky.social panels at the Leeds IMC. It was an incredible experience listening to all of the papers, and presenting my own. Everyone was wonderful, and I can't wait for the next opportunity to challenge myself like this again.

I'm standing behind a small desk giving a presentation while wearing a felt Dragonborn helmet and a stylized Sheogorath t-shirt. I have a particularly goofy grin on my face.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A bit late...we know...but thanks to everyone who presented at and attended our strand at @imc-leeds.bsky.social last month. So many papers, so much to reflect on. Thank you everyone, we hope to see you next year 😊 Here's a photo of the organising team looking proud.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Due to popular demand, and to make it easy for our colleagues just getting back after conference season, we decided to extend the deadline for this year's #MAMG conference. If you feel like participating, but haven't submitte yet, worry not! Make sure to send us an abstract by August 8th.

the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester presents The Seventh Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on 5 to 6 October 2026. The central themes of this year’s event are ‘Possible worlds / Possible pasts’.
In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds.
This conference considers the Middle Ages and Medievalism in Modern Games. We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.
We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 8 August.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We're heading back to @imc-leeds.bsky.social in July next year for a strand on 'Communities' or any other aspect of the medieval and medievalism in modern games - organised by @blairapgar.bsky.social with @tesswatty.bsky.social. Get your abstracts to us by 13 September!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games invites submissions for its strand at Leeds IMC (5–8 July 2027), sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester.

This year's strand explores the congress theme of Communities, examining how medievalist games imagine, construct, and negotiate social groups. Papers may consider communities as systems of governance, identity, cooperation, conflict, trade, religion, reputation, or belonging, as well as the ways players form communities around games. We are particularly interested in how games shape understandings of medieval communities through mechanics, narratives, and audiovisual representation.

We welcome papers and sessions (3–4 papers) addressing any aspect of the medieval period or medievalism in digital or tabletop games, across any region and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’—including fantasy.
We particularly welcome submissions engaging with Communities broadly defined.

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

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Topics might include (but are not restricted to):

Teaching Medieval Communities through Games
Membership and inclusion within communities; “the Other”
Religious groups within medievalist games
Migration and mobile communities
Race, ethnicity, and cultural identity-based communities
Gender, sexuality, and queer communities
Chosen families and alternative kinship structures
Colonialism, indigeneity, and community representation
Assimilation, hybridity, and multicultural communities
Community lines along social class and/or castes
Enclaves, splinter cells, and secession
Communities of violence and disruptive communities
Cooperation and obligation within medievalist games
Relationship and favorability mechanics in medievalist games
Guild systems in massive multiplayer online games (MMOs)
Language and visual signifiers of communities
Player communities of medievalist games
Positive and negative community exchanges

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

CFP now open! The Middle Ages in Modern Games returns to Leeds IMC 2027. We're inviting papers on medievalism in digital and tabletop games, especially those engaging the congress theme of Communities. Abstracts due 13 Sept. Visit middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement... for more information.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We're heading back to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week for two days of papers on the Middle Ages in Computer Games! Come and find us Maurice Keyworth 1.06 (Mon) and Clarendon Building 1.01 (Tue). Full programme here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/leeds-imc-20...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The CfP for the upcoming #MAMG26 is now live! The event will take place on 5-7 Oct, assynchronously and online. Come join us from anywhere in the world to discuss medievalisms in games and alternative approaches to the ludic past.

In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds.

We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.

We encourage submissions from medievalists, games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’.

We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 3 August.

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Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out! All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism. #historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies

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MAMG25 Proceedings

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Conference Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Asynchronous Conference on The Middle Ages in Modern Games are now out! You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...

The title page of The Middle Ages in Modern Games: Conference Proceedings Volume 6 - 2025. Edited by Vinicius Marino Carvalho and Tess Watterson. The cover image is a map of East Asia from the mod 'Raja's of Asia' for Crusader Kings 3.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição! #historygames #medievalsky

O Middle Ages in Modern Games, a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) e o Laboratório de Pesquisa Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas (ARISE) tem o prazer de convidar a todos para uma sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital.

O archaeogaming e o estudo de jogos medievais se beneficiaram de um crescimento expressivo na última década. De um lado, praticantes de arqueologia e história medieval têm incorporado metodologias para integrar jogos como formas de análise e divulgação de suas pesquisas. Por outro, especialistas em game studies têm reconhecido a importância da arqueologia para o estudo da dimensão material dos jogos e da vivência de pessoas em espaços virtuais.

Convidamos estudantes, pesquisadores e profissionais da Arqueologia medieval e afins a integrarem uma sessão temática direcionada às novas fronteiras de pesquisa nesta área. O evento ocorrerá nos dias 8 a 12 de dezembro de 2025, em formato online via YouTube, no período norturno (18h às 21h, horário de Brasília)
Tópicos incluem (mas não estão restritos a):
Archaeogaming e Idade Média
Representações de arqueólogos em jogos medievalistas
Arqueologia de espaços virtuais
Modelagem 3D e criação de assets para jogos
Cultura material da Idade Média em jogos digitais
A Idade Média em jogos analógicos
Medievalismo e roleplay
Uso de jogos para o ensino de história ou educação patrimonial
Simulações analíticas
Realidade virtual/aumentada e o passado medieval
Materialidade de jogos medievalistas
Usos políticos e ideológicos da cultura material em jogos medievalistas
Olhares decoloniais/anti-eurocêntrico sobre a arqueologia digital e jogos medievais
Para mais informações ou eventuais dúvidas, favor escrever ao Dr. Vinicius Marino Carvalho no email midagesmodgames@gmail.com
Favor enviar título e resumo da apresentação por meio do link: https://sinsc.furg.br/fichainscricao/7823
Esperamos ansiosamente sua participação!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social. If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you! #medievalsky

The Middle Ages in Modern Games conference, the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), and the research society ARISE (Interactive Archaeology and Electronic Simulations) are pleased to announce a thematic strand at the I Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology.

Archaeogaming and medievalist game studies have enjoyed noteworthy popularity since the past decade. On the one hand, practitioners of medieval history and archaeology have started to devise methodologies to integrate games as research outputs and vehicles for outreach. On the other hand, game studies experts have acknowledged the importance of archaeology to deal with the material dimension of games and the human experiences within virtual spaces.

We invite students, researchers and professionals working with medieval archaeology and related fields to submit proposals for oral communications exploring these themes. The event will be held online and broadcasted via YouTube between 8-12 December, from 6 to 9pm (UTC -3).
Topics include (but are not restricted to)
Archaeogaming and the Middle Ages
Depictions of archaeologists in medievalist games
The archaeology of virtual environments
3D modeling and asset creation for games.
Medieval material culture in modern games
The Middle Ages in analog games
Medievalism and roleplay
Games as tools for history teaching and heritage education
Virtual/augmented reality and the medieval past
The materiality of medievalist games
Political and ideological uses of material culture in medievalist games
Decolonial/Anti-eurocentric approaches to digital archaeology and medievalist games
For more information or questions, please contact Dr. Vinicius Marino Carvalho at
midagesmodgames@gmail.com
Submissions are open until the 5th of November via the following link: https://sinsc.furg.br/fichainscricao/7823
We hope to see you there!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Our friend and contributor Stephen Yeager is one of the series editors for Media Before 1800 with Concordia Press - and they're looking for new book pitches. It may be of interest to some of our contributors: www.concordia.ca/press/series...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

There's still a couple of weeks left to get your abstracts in for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social strand next year! We how to see a lot of you there. Deadline 17 September.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you've been following us this year, you'll know all about DropCaps from Kelcey Gray and Jessie Contour. The game is out now on Google Play and the App Store and is well worth a look! www.dropcapsgame.com

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Dropcaps Game

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In the last few weeks of writing this paper I've been inspired by the Middle Ages in Modern Games network (@midagesmodgames.bsky.social), who I met at @themamoconf.bsky.social. My paper is really the Ancient World in Medieval Games, but some methodologies are strikingly similar!

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Preparing my presentation for Thursday's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social session at #IMC2025. I'll be reflecting on the ocularcentric perspectives at the centre of Ubisoft's work on heritage as a way of legitimising historical representation in the AC games, by focusing on the Notre Dame fire of 2019.

Power point slide that has a screenshot of the virtual model of Notre Dame from Assassin's Creed Unity. The slide reads 'Assassin's Creed and Notre Dame: sparking debates on ocularcentric learning and heritage preservation. Professor Mariana López. School of Arts and Creative Technologies. University of York

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Adam Rosser, Radioist 📻 🎮 @adamrosserradio.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

10 minutes to go before going forward with the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton on what the latest #MAMG25 has delivered to us! Join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! We will take a break now, but please join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton, looking at what this year’s immersion in medievalist games has given us, and what it could give us in the future!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The time for our second (and last) Keynote Lecture has come! William Chen speaks at #MAMG25 about ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Come read and ask your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=900

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We have a slightly longer break now, then please join us again at 2pm (UTC+1) for our second keynote for #MAMG25, delivered by William Chen: ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government...'

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That’s a wrap for the Globalism and Religion panel! Thank you so much to our presenters: Hirohito Tsuji, Ron Heckler, and Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo, and to everyone joining in with questions and comments! #MAMG25

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Final paper for this #MAMG25 session on Globalism and Religion is ‘The Eternal Presence of Holy War: The Procedural Rhetoric of Jihad and Crusade in Total War: Medieval 2’, by Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo. Come read and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=881

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Next up is Ron Heckler’s ‘„Denn häufig haben sich auf seinem Wink und Befehl viele von ihnen von einer hohen Mauer hinunter gestürzt [...]“: Die Tradierung des mittelalterlichen Mythos der Nizari Ismailis in Narration und Gameplay in Assassin’s Creed’: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=981

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Globalism and Religion panel is starting now with a paper on ‘Religious Tensions: The Itatehyōzu Shrine in Assassin's Creed Shadows’ by @tsujihirohito.bsky.social, check it out on the website here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=877 #MAMG25

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just 10 minutes to go before we start our second panel for today, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)! While you wait, check out all the awesome papers on our website from the last two days of #MAMG25 using the programme with links: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thanks so much to all our presenters in Friday’s first panel for #MAMG25, Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo, Simone Fleres, Roderick Dale and Markus Mindrebø! We have a short rest now, then we’ll be back for our second session, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Third and final paper to close our Witcher panel is ‘Dungeons & Distortions: The Pseudo-Norse berserkir in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ by Roderick Dale and @markusmindrebo.bsky.social, check it out and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=866/

Landscape image from the Witcher 3, with a man (Geralt) on a horse in the foreground looking out over the ocean from a coastline, with Norse style long ships on the water and dark clouds above.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The second paper of our Witcher panel is now live, ‘The Witcher 3: un viaggio nel tempo e nello spazio dell’Europa medievale’, by Simone Fleres, and is in Italian (with an English translation): middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=861

Game screenshot of The Witcher 3, in the foreground a man Geralt, with white hair, leather armour, and two swords sheathed on his back, is facing away from us, riding a white horse towards a stone bridge into a medieval townscape in the background.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Starting today’s first #MAMG25 panel is the paper ‘Female Voices in a Medieval-Inspired Universe: a Brief Comparative Study of the Representation of Women in The Witcher Books and Video Games’ by Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo. It’s live on the site: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=815

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The third and final day of #MAMG25 is about to begin! Head over to our website to check out the programme, and read two days of great papers, and our first panel for today, Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher, will start in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1)! middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thanks to all our panelists! That’s a wrap in our second day at #MAMG25. We will be back tomorrow at 10.00 UCT+1 with our panel on Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher. In the meantime, please do catch up with the papers and continue asking question #MAMG25

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thank you for your paper Simone. Our final paper of this panel is by Blair Apgar (@BlairApgar , @blairapgar.bsky.social )and titled “Framing the Other Within: Sebhat of Sadai, Narrative Legibility, and Ethiopian Manuscript Aesthetics in Pentiment” #MAMG25 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/frami...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thank you very much for your paper Johansen. Our second paper is by Simone Vitolo and titled “L’era dei rumors e il razzismo: Kingdom Come Deliverance II” #MAMG25 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/lera-...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our first paper of the panel is by Johansen Quijano (@QuijanoPhD , @quijanophd.bsky.social ) and titled “Globalities and Regionalities in Roleplaying across Culture and Race in Black Desert Online” #MAMG225 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/globa...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Welcome back! In just 10 minutes, we will continue with our final panel on the second day of #MAMG25 with a panel on Race and Culture, with papers by @QuijanoPhD (@quijanophd.bsky.social), Simone Vitolo, and @BlairApgar (@blairapgar.bsky.social) The first paper is at 18.00 UTC+1

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thanks to all our panelists! Lots to think about after 3 insightful contributions. We have a break now, and we are back at 18.00 UTC+1 with our session on Race and Culture. In the meantime, please do catch up with the papers and continue asking question #MAMG25

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thank you very much for your paper, Lucas and Patrick. Our final paper of this panel is by Merle Stratmann and titled “We can be heroes, just for one day: Concepts of history in LARP” #MAMG25 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/we-ca...

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thank you very much for your paper, Stephen. Our second paper is by Lucas Haasis and Patrick Heike (@lhaasis.bsky.social‬ and @patrick1994.bsky.social) and titled “Teaching the 16th century with Pentiment” #MAMG25 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/teach...

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