Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages

Book Overview

Digital gaming's cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into the contemporary world via digital games as well as analyzing how digital gaming translates, adapts, and remediates medieval stories, themes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415630916
• ISBN13: 9780415630917
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"