Disney Middle Ages Coming Soon

Nothing yet from the publisher but online booksellers now include information for the following new collection:

The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (The New Middle Ages)

Edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein

List Price: $85.00

Expected publication 12/11/12

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (December 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0230340075
ISBN-13: 978-0230340077


In addition, WorldCat offers the following details:

"The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past examines the intersection between the products of the Walt Disney Company and popular culture's fascination with the Middle Ages. The Disney Middle Ages have come, for many, to figure as the Middle Ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary western (and increasingly eastern) imaginary. The Disney Middle Ages explores Disney's accounts of the Middle Ages and their political and cultural ramifications, analyzing how these re-creations of a fairy-tale history function in modern society"