Playing With The Past

"All of the sudden you're about to die and then a dragon comes sweeping in."

 

In this episode, I will discuss some of my favorite video game quests.

 

Sources mentioned in this episode

 

Howard, Jeff. Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives. 1st edition. A K Peters/CRC Press, 2008.

 

Kelly, Douglas. “Multiple Quests in French Verse Romance: ‘Mervelles de Rigomer’ and ‘Claris et Laris.’” L’Esprit Créateur 9, no. 4 (1969): 257–66.

"Team Squirrels!"

 

In today's episode, I will be discussing the video game The Witcher and the profession of monster hunting with friend of the show Becca.

 

Sources Mentioned in the episode

 

Duda, Heather L. The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture. 1st edition. McFarland, 2009.

 

 

"Vikings!"

 

In this episode, I will be discussing more sword history from the Roman through the late medieval era.

 

Sources mentioned in the episode

 

Loades, Mike, Swords and Swordsmen, Reprint edition (Pen & Sword Military, 2011).

"It's Chivalry time again!"

 

In this episode, a very special guest and I discuss Jedi Knights and how they compare to French and English Knights.

 

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"Humans are going to Human."

 

Sources mentioned in the episode.

Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59959/letters-whitechapel

 

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"What history is it full of, you ask? Jack the Ripper history."

 

In this episode, I will discuss the Jack the Ripper murders as they relate to the board game Letters from Whitechapel.

 

Sources mentioned in the episode.

Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

 

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"Egypt had some unique swords, including one that was found in King Tutankhamun's tomb."

 

In today's episode, I will be discussing the history of swords—specifically, the history of swords from the beginning through part of the classical era.

 

Sources mentioned in the episode.

 

Loades, Mike, Swords and Swordsmen, Reprint edition (Pen & Sword Military, 2011).

 

 

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"I get to talk about one of my favorite historical topics."

 

In this second episode about Dante's Inferno, I talk a closer look at the game and different ways to look at the history in it.

 

 

Sources mentioned in the episode.

 

The Inferno in the Devine Comedy translated by John Ciardi

 

"Courtly Violence: Digital Play: Adapting Medieval Courtly Masculinities in Dante's Inferno" by Oliver Chadwick

 

Dante's Inferno Video Game

 

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"Dante was absent when Charles of Valois arrived and therefore missed the murder, pillaging, and purge trials that happened."

 

In this first of two episodes, I will be discussing Dante's Inferno, the poem, and the video game and how similar they are.

 

Sources mentioned in the episode and full list of sources for the episode.

 

Alighieri, Dante. 2003. The Divine Comedy. Translated by John Ciardi. Illustrated edition. New York: Berkley.

 

Dante's Inferno Video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts 

 

 

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"A mystical creature that comes in at night and it eats peoples dreams"   In this episode of Playing With the Past, friend of the show, Ryan, will join me for an in-depth discussion of Pokémon and the folklores that have inspired some Pokémon.   Sources mentioned in the episode. Repackaging Japanese Culture: The Digitalization of Folktales in the Pokémon Franchise by Erika Ann Sumilang-Engracia