Accessus Volume 2 | Issue 1 Article 2 2015 “For it Acordeth Noght to Kinde”: Remediating Gower’s Confessio Amantis in Machinima Sarah L. Higley University of Rochester, NY,
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[email protected]. Higley: Remediating Gower's Confessio 1 “For it Acordeth Noght to Kinde”: Remediating Gower’s Confessio Amantis in Machinima Sarah L. Higley Vimeo https://vimeo.com/98521054 or: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcliUQvo_cY&list=UUd_irf-08NAMyz8m37QXVSA Introduction The “medieval film” is a phrase often heard across academia, and it has double meaning for me. It primarily refers, of course, to film forms of “neomedievalism,” or cinematic remediation of medieval subject matter and literature. However, I hear in it, too, a film made in the Middle Ages, if that were possible, most resonantly in the title of the 2014 anthology The Medieval Motion Picture,1 as though illuminators were somehow bringing their illustrations to life within 1. The Medieval Motion Picture: The Politics of Adaptation, ed.