TITLE
What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames?
AUTHOR
Peter Alexander Kerkhof
PUBLICATION
Leiden Medievalists Blog
YEAR
2021
ARTICLE TYPE
Academic
FROM THE ARTICLE
Scholars have often remarked that pop-culture stereotypes regularly prevail over historical authenticity when it comes to depicting medieval life in modern entertainment media. Understandably, videogames are no exception to this trend. In this article, I would like to talk about a part of the medieval décor that is consistently misrepresented in “medieval” videogames but rarely talked about: the depiction of our favourite barnyard animal, the domesticated pig.
TOPICS MENTIONED
Historical Studies