Mediaeval revivalism, courtly love and faerie dust from the State Art Collection 1516-2023 In contemporary culture, mediaeval imagery and rhetoric is highly popular: from the camp costumes of pop-star Chappell Roan, the gritty realist version of the mediaeval seen in television adaptations, to the grandiose and heroic rhetoric in the manifestos of venture capitalists and CEOs in the tech’ world.