Growing Up with the Middle Ages: The Influences upon Children’s Ideas about the Medieval World

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

Paul B. Sturtevant

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Leeds

Presider Name

Paul B. Sturtevant

Paper Title 1

Jousting Knights and Tournament Ladies: Children's Understanding of Reconfigured Gender Relations in the Modern Sport of Jousting

Presenter 1 Name

Whitney A. M. Leeson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Roanoke College

Paper Title 2

Kids and Castles: The Moat between Medieval Art and Contemporary Consumption

Presenter 2 Name

Dawn Cunningham

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of St. Michael's College, Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 3

Saturday Morning Medieval: Medievalisms and Children’s Television Programming

Presenter 3 Name

Megan Arnott

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Western Ontario

Start Date

11-5-2012 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1245