Such an expansiveness that resists firm boundaries, and thus resists any efforts to develop a concrete field of specialty over which the academic can preside as expert is evident to the continued commitment of its members to electronic media that can provide (for those who can afford it) open access to its collective work, including its journal, Year’s Work in Medievalism, and its community-authored blog, Medievally Speaking.
[12] The first issue of SiM featured a quote attributed to the British Victorian writer and Member of Parliament Lord Acton on its masthead: "Two great principles divide the world, and contend for mastery, antiquity and the Middle Ages.
"As Professor David Matthews notes, the statement has appeared on "every issue" of SiM since, and "argues for the pervasiveness of medievalism".
The series is otherwise open to any paper that addresses medievalism in at least 6,000 words, and recent topics have ranged from representations of King Alfred in Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England[13] to medievalist music in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films.
Former editors include Edward L. Risden (St. Norbert College) and Richard Utz (Georgia Tech), Leslie J.
ISSM conferences keynote speeches have been given by scholars and creative or cultural practitioners of medievalism, including Terry Jones, Ronald Hutton, and Verlyn Fleiger.