Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of Spring 2019 From Wanderer to Warrior: Martin's Journey to Sainthood in Brian Jacques's Redwall Series Marie A. Bliemeister Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Bliemeister, Marie A., "From Wanderer to Warrior: Martin's Journey to Sainthood in Brian Jacques's Redwall Series" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1930. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1930 This thesis (open access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FROM WANDERER TO WARRIOR: MARTIN’S JOURNEY TO SAINTHOOD IN BRIAN JACQUES’S REDWALL SERIES by MARIE BLIEMEISTER (Under the direction of Richard Flynn) ABSTRACT Children’s fantasy series have been set in the Medieval Era, a way to explore contemporary themes. This use of the Medieval Era is known as medievalism, where authors can explore contemporary issues by comparing them to the past (Bradford 3). Brian Jacques, the author of the popular children’s series Redwall, uses many aspects of the Medieval Era such as prophecies, glory, and battle, and visions or dreams to effectively spin a good yarn while commenting on the religious development of England in the late twentieth century. English moral was down due to the devastation of World War Two and religious ideals were facing rebuke by the rising notions of secularism.