Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games

2025/10/23 by Watterson, Tess

paper · doi:10.48487/pdh.2025.n20.41785

Abstract

Review of Robert Houghton, ed. Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 288 pp.

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