Confraternity of Neoflagellants

We are lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture.

Neomedievalisms are cultural practices that breathe a bouquet of premoderns as permanent rehearsals of coming events. Where medievalists may be prone to police the post-medieval weald for ‘inauthentic’ medievalisms, neomedievalists embrace the articulation and mobilisation of metahistorical ‘anachronisms’. To the medievalist, medievalisms provide powerful indexes that reveal how post-medieval societies have variously imagined ‘little middle ages’ to suit modern agendas. To the neomedievalist, medievalisms are theory-fictions that facilitate ludic speculation on non-modern futurities.

Prof. Neil Mulholland and Dr. Norman Hogg are the Confraternity of Neoflagellants