Abstract

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series exists as part of a fully-fledged multi-media and material culture, one that participates extensively in medievalism. This article examines the various categories of medievalism perpetuated by the Harry Potter books and their surrounding culture—literary (including ‘creative’ and ‘scholarly’), movie, and experiential medievalisms—and introduces the idea of material medievalisms. It also considers how these fields intersect and contribute to a type of convergence culture in which scholarly and popular rethinkings of the Middle Ages meet.