1In Medievalism, David Matthew uses The Knight errant by Sir John Everett Millais to epitomise the differences and the connection between the grotesque and romantic Middle Ages as depicted in post-medieval texts, which work under the assumption that anything medieval involves the grotesque threat of violence and warped sexuality while also assuming that the threat of sexual violence is in itself somehow medieval. The image also depicts the Romantic Middle Ages which, Matthews notes, “concedes that violence against women exists [but] also proposes that help is at hand in the form of knights, shining armour, and chivalry.” In this paper, I suggest that this collision of grotesque and romantic medievalisms in the same place creates a space that is left open to fetishisation and forms the basis of kinky medievalism, which can be demonstrated through an analysis of popular post-medieval Robin Hood adaptations. I analyse televisual and cinematic Robin Hoods to identify a shift in the “warped sexuality” that is depicted on screen from non-consensual sexual violence to encoding deliberate and consensual powerplays that are representative of kink and fetish on screen and their intersections with broader popular on-screen fetish texts, most notably the adaption of E. L. James’ Fifty shades trilogy. Ultimately, the paper suggests that although the Middle Ages represented in Robin Hood texts can be an era of repression through powerlessness that requires violent action and sympathetic chivalry, these ideas of power, violence, and chivalry have been adapted through the lens of medievalism to represent an alternative sexuality that is decreasingly encoded as warped and increasingly mainstream.
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RAHMAN, Sabina. 3) Fifty shades of Lincoln Green: the intersection of medievalism and fetish culture in Robin Hood on screen In : Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme [en ligne]. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021 (généré le 22 septembre 2023). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/efr/28595>. ISBN : 9782728314942. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.28595.
Rahman, S. 2021. 3) Fifty shades of Lincoln Green: the intersection of medievalism and fetish culture in Robin Hood on screen. In di Carpegna Falconieri, T., Savy, P., & Yawn, L. (Eds.), Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome. doi :10.4000/books.efr.28595
Rahman, Sabina. “3) Fifty shades of Lincoln Green: the intersection of medievalism and fetish culture in Robin Hood on screen”. di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, et al.. Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/efr/28595>.
DI CARPEGNA FALCONIERI, Tommaso (dir.) ; SAVY, Pierre (dir.) ; et YAWN, Lila (dir.). Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021 (généré le 22 septembre 2023). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/efr/18397>. ISBN : 9782728314942. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.18397.
di Carpegna Falconieri, T., Savy, P., & Yawn, L. (Eds.) 2021. Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome. doi :10.4000/books.efr.18397
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, et al., ed. Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/efr/18397>.
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3) Fifty shades of Lincoln Green: the intersection of medievalism and fetish culture in Robin Hood on screen