🟠 "Dreaming of the Middle Ages" from Travels in Hyperreality
at @are.na
Umberto Eco,
Faith in Fakes
Essays
#UmbertoEco #Essay #Neomedievalism
www.are.na/block/17345766
at @are.na
Umberto Eco,
Faith in Fakes
Essays
#UmbertoEco #Essay #Neomedievalism
www.are.na/block/17345766
November 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
🟠 "Dreaming of the Middle Ages" from Travels in Hyperreality
at @are.na
Umberto Eco,
Faith in Fakes
Essays
#UmbertoEco #Essay #Neomedievalism
www.are.na/block/17345766
at @are.na
Umberto Eco,
Faith in Fakes
Essays
#UmbertoEco #Essay #Neomedievalism
www.are.na/block/17345766
📚 Book presentation: Dr Aleksandra Spalińska on Neomedievalism in International Relations (Routledge, 2026) – political order & authority beyond the modern state
🗓 Mon 19 Oct, 5pm UK
📍 Pembroke College, Oxford & online
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31c3b0...
🗓 Mon 19 Oct, 5pm UK
📍 Pembroke College, Oxford & online
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31c3b0...
October 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📚 Book presentation: Dr Aleksandra Spalińska on Neomedievalism in International Relations (Routledge, 2026) – political order & authority beyond the modern state
🗓 Mon 19 Oct, 5pm UK
📍 Pembroke College, Oxford & online
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31c3b0...
🗓 Mon 19 Oct, 5pm UK
📍 Pembroke College, Oxford & online
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31c3b0...
Dear Metal Studies colleagues: Neomedieval, a Spanish scholarly journal devoted to everything neomedieval, is looking for contributions on the topic "Between Medieval History and Medievalist Fantasy: On Neomedievalism in Metal Music". Many languages accepted! revistas.urjc.es/index.php/ne...
CFP Neomedieval 8 (2027) | Neomedieval
Between Medieval History and Medievalist Fantasy: On Neomedievalisms in Metal Music
revistas.urjc.es
October 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Dear Metal Studies colleagues: Neomedieval, a Spanish scholarly journal devoted to everything neomedieval, is looking for contributions on the topic "Between Medieval History and Medievalist Fantasy: On Neomedievalism in Metal Music". Many languages accepted! revistas.urjc.es/index.php/ne...
Thrilled that my book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire", has been selected as the IR Book of the Week" by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social!
Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!
Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!
IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations)
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations) - Kindle edition by Spalińska, Aleksandra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations).
www.amazon.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Thrilled that my book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire", has been selected as the IR Book of the Week" by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social!
Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!
Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!
IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations)
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations) - Kindle edition by Spalińska, Aleksandra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations).
www.amazon.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"
November 1, 2024 at 11:42 AM
dept staff asked me to write a little blurb for an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of our music building, and because I have quite a few serious writing deadlines imminent I took the time to write a 2k word thinkpiece on 70s neomedievalism that involved archival research and interviews. 🤷🏼♂️
April 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
dept staff asked me to write a little blurb for an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of our music building, and because I have quite a few serious writing deadlines imminent I took the time to write a 2k word thinkpiece on 70s neomedievalism that involved archival research and interviews. 🤷🏼♂️
just got a copy of Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy: Neomedievalism, Video Games, and Vikings.
There’s something for everyone!
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There’s something for everyone!
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March 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
just got a copy of Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy: Neomedievalism, Video Games, and Vikings.
There’s something for everyone!
📚💙
🪐📚
There’s something for everyone!
📚💙
🪐📚
Putin’s Dark Ages
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva
www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva
www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kre...
www.routledge.com
April 1, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Putin’s Dark Ages
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva
www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva
www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Y'know. This is correct. And you bring this up; I refer you to this.. sort of dry, academic, but fascinating.. a extremely relevant to your points here: Putin’s Dark Ages
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva 2024 www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva 2024 www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kre...
www.routledge.com
July 21, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Y'know. This is correct. And you bring this up; I refer you to this.. sort of dry, academic, but fascinating.. a extremely relevant to your points here: Putin’s Dark Ages
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva 2024 www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
By Dina Khapaeva 2024 www.routledge.com/Putins-Dark-...
Wow… uhm, wow. Finished, finally—a dense, mean, little book. And fascinating!
‘Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia’ by Dina Khapaeva
#Russia #PutinsDarkAges
And it’s going on here…
‘Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia’ by Dina Khapaeva
#Russia #PutinsDarkAges
And it’s going on here…
April 2, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Wow… uhm, wow. Finished, finally—a dense, mean, little book. And fascinating!
‘Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia’ by Dina Khapaeva
#Russia #PutinsDarkAges
And it’s going on here…
‘Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia’ by Dina Khapaeva
#Russia #PutinsDarkAges
And it’s going on here…
Apollinary Vasnetsov’s 1911 painting “The street in the town”: people fleeing at the arrival of the Oprichniki (inspired by the opera The Oprichnik by Tchaikovsky)
#Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod
#Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod
March 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Apollinary Vasnetsov’s 1911 painting “The street in the town”: people fleeing at the arrival of the Oprichniki (inspired by the opera The Oprichnik by Tchaikovsky)
#Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod
#Russia #oprichnina #ivanTheTerrible #putin #putinism #neomedievalism #novgorod
we are seeing the rise and rise of neomedievalism along with fascism and christofascism.
Jews sat happy thinking that when muslims were the scapegoat that somehow fascists would not come for them afterwards.
Jews sat happy thinking that when muslims were the scapegoat that somehow fascists would not come for them afterwards.
January 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
we are seeing the rise and rise of neomedievalism along with fascism and christofascism.
Jews sat happy thinking that when muslims were the scapegoat that somehow fascists would not come for them afterwards.
Jews sat happy thinking that when muslims were the scapegoat that somehow fascists would not come for them afterwards.
Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible theconversation.com/make-russia-...
Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible
A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.
theconversation.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Make Russia Medieval Again! How Putin is seeking to remold society, with a little help from Ivan the Terrible theconversation.com/make-russia-...
Il Neomedievalismo è una teoria discussa nel 1977 da Hedly Bull dove si cerca di spostare il potere e il controllo dai governi nazionali.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medie…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medie…
Neo-medievalism
Neo-medievalism (or neomedievalism, new medievalism) is a term with a long history[1] that has acquired specific technical senses in two branches of scholarship. In political theory about modern international relations, where the term is originally associated with Hedley Bull, it sees the political order of a globalized world as analogous to high-medieval Europe, where neither states nor the Church, nor other territorial powers, exercised full sovereignty, but instead participated in complex, overlapping and incomplete sovereignties.[2]
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Il Neomedievalismo è una teoria discussa nel 1977 da Hedly Bull dove si cerca di spostare il potere e il controllo dai governi nazionali.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medie…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medie…
Something I think is worth pointing out is how they view "weakening states" and fragmentation as key elements of their "neomedievalism." This is why we need political historians of the middle ages. *cough cough give me a job* I could write more but I have stuff to do
Hey @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social, if you have the time, what are your thoughts on "Neomedievalism?" This sort of thing has started to appear in think-tank circles:
www.rand.org/pubs/article...
www.rand.org/pubs/article...
The U.S.-China Rivalry in a New Medieval Age
Trends like weakening governments and fragmenting societies suggest that the era of industrial superpowers is over and we've entered a new medieval age. The U.S.-China rivalry may have more in common ...
www.rand.org
August 30, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Something I think is worth pointing out is how they view "weakening states" and fragmentation as key elements of their "neomedievalism." This is why we need political historians of the middle ages. *cough cough give me a job* I could write more but I have stuff to do
Trends That Define Neomedievalism
RAND's report is not the first to describe the modern world as neomedieval. Its contribution is in assessing how neomedieval conditions will shape the rivalry between China and the United States. Its authors identify five trends that will define the era:
RAND's report is not the first to describe the modern world as neomedieval. Its contribution is in assessing how neomedieval conditions will shape the rivalry between China and the United States. Its authors identify five trends that will define the era:
January 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trends That Define Neomedievalism
RAND's report is not the first to describe the modern world as neomedieval. Its contribution is in assessing how neomedieval conditions will shape the rivalry between China and the United States. Its authors identify five trends that will define the era:
RAND's report is not the first to describe the modern world as neomedieval. Its contribution is in assessing how neomedieval conditions will shape the rivalry between China and the United States. Its authors identify five trends that will define the era:
the latest from RD: @tlecaque.bsky.social on the Christofascist work being done by DHS's neomedievalist posts
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
Neomedievalism Memes are Doing White Christofascist Work
Given that the white supremacist running the account churns out offensive content like the hatemonger he is, it might seem silly to focus on just one DHS Instagram post.But as a trained medievalist, t...
religiondispatches.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the latest from RD: @tlecaque.bsky.social on the Christofascist work being done by DHS's neomedievalist posts
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
the full report is interesting although I think “neomedievalism” is a poor term to use when “postmodern” works exceptionally well www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
U.S.-China Rivalry in a Neomedieval World
The neomedieval era, which began around 2000, is characterized by weakening states, fragmenting societies, imbalanced economies, and informalized warfare. What do these conditions mean for competition...
www.rand.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the full report is interesting although I think “neomedievalism” is a poor term to use when “postmodern” works exceptionally well www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
Within my fellowship, I will continue my work on neomedievalism and historical transformations of world order in the project "Persistent Structures of Reemerging Patterns? A Meta-Historical Analysis of Global Security Dynamics." Many thanks to Prof. Annette Idler for hosting me.
May 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Within my fellowship, I will continue my work on neomedievalism and historical transformations of world order in the project "Persistent Structures of Reemerging Patterns? A Meta-Historical Analysis of Global Security Dynamics." Many thanks to Prof. Annette Idler for hosting me.
Thank you! My book builds upon Hedley Bull, but expands Neomedievalism well beyond that. Looking forward to any comments or questions you may have.
February 26, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Thank you! My book builds upon Hedley Bull, but expands Neomedievalism well beyond that. Looking forward to any comments or questions you may have.
The book will be officially launched at #EISAPEC26 in Lisbon this September. Pre-order your copy here: amzn.eu/d/0cBBET6g
#InternationalRelations #worldorder #theEnglishSchool #AcademicPublishing #Routledge #Neomedievalism #PoliticalScience #EISAPEC24 #NewBook
#InternationalRelations #worldorder #theEnglishSchool #AcademicPublishing #Routledge #Neomedievalism #PoliticalScience #EISAPEC24 #NewBook
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire
Buy Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire 1 by Spalińska, Aleksandra (ISBN: 9781041218715) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
amzn.eu
February 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The book will be officially launched at #EISAPEC26 in Lisbon this September. Pre-order your copy here: amzn.eu/d/0cBBET6g
#InternationalRelations #worldorder #theEnglishSchool #AcademicPublishing #Routledge #Neomedievalism #PoliticalScience #EISAPEC24 #NewBook
#InternationalRelations #worldorder #theEnglishSchool #AcademicPublishing #Routledge #Neomedievalism #PoliticalScience #EISAPEC24 #NewBook
Abstract and table of contents are available here:
www.routledge.com/Neomedievali...
www.routledge.com/Neomedievali...
Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire
In Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire, we explore the evolution of neomedievalism and its transformative role in rethinking world politics....
www.routledge.com
February 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Abstract and table of contents are available here:
www.routledge.com/Neomedievali...
www.routledge.com/Neomedievali...
It further shows how neomedievalism aids in “elucidating the empire,” offering insights into the dynamics of political development, past and present empires, and the growing influence of transnational forces.
February 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
It further shows how neomedievalism aids in “elucidating the empire,” offering insights into the dynamics of political development, past and present empires, and the growing influence of transnational forces.