Historian on the Warpath

This page builds on my essay published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 33 (2018) titled “Warriors ‘Hedgehogged’ in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and P...

https://scottmanning.com/content/hedgehogofarrows/

One of the most common inspirations I've seen for Joan of Arc book covers is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's 1854 painting entitled Jeanne d'Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale d...

https://scottmanning.com/content/ingress-joan-of-arc-painting-1854/

articles, reviews, and everyday encounters with the past

http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2023/06/historial-jeanne-darc-in-rouen.html

In Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Strange and America Chavez are on the run from the Scarlet Witch, and they naturally seek refuge at the Kamar-Taj. This fictional place in Katm...

https://scottmanning.com/content/inspiration-for-the-cauldrons-at-kamar-taj-in-dr-strange-in-multiverse-of-madness/

In 1913, Al Ringling kept Joan of Arc as the theme for the 45-minute spectacle that preceded each Ringling Bros. circus show. That meant that targeted towns saw a lot of Joan of Arc-related adver...

https://scottmanning.com/content/ringling-bros-joan-of-arc-spectacle-newspaper-ad-1913/

Call for Papers sponsored by The International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2023)May 11 to 13, 202...

https://scottmanning.com/content/cfp-teaching-joan-of-arc-and-her-world-in-and-out-of-the-classroom/

This week, The Year’s Work in Medievalism published my paper “Channeling Joan of Arc in Doom: Annihilation (2019)” examining the latest Doom movie directed by Tony Giglio. It is available f...

https://scottmanning.com/content/channeling-joan-of-arc-in-doom-annihilation-2019/

In a paper published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism, I followed the trend of depicting living armored warriors covered with arrows from medieval chronicles to Samurai films to comic books. T...

https://scottmanning.com/content/a-hedgehog-of-arrows-in-zack-snyders-justice-league/

In 2018, I had the privilege of writing the afterword for Tapestry Comics' graphic novel A Flower in a Field of Lions: The Story of Joan of Arc. The editor has allowed me to publish the complete ...

https://scottmanning.com/content/a-flower-in-a-field-of-lions-the-trials-of-joan-of-arc/

I'm thrilled to share that my paper on warriors riddled with arrows found in medieval Muslim/Christian chronicles, comics, films, and television, can be read in the latest volume of This Year’s...

https://scottmanning.com/content/warriors-hedgehogged-in-arrows-crusaders-samurai-and-wolverine/