George R.R. Martin has said that his world is based on a grab bag of histories. The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.
If "History is written by the victors", who was victorious in Game of Thrones—not on the battlefield, but in writing the history books?
Brienne of Tarth is one of Game of Thrones best characters: a chivalrous warrior, and now a knight of the realm. Let's meet another woman warrior of medieval literature.
The Battle of Winterfell would have gone a lot better had our heroes known a thing or two about medieval warfare...
A Brazilian medievalist reflects on what Notre Dame means to them, and what works of art like it add to life.
On April 15, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris burned. A medievalist recounts why the Cathedral, and the fire, meant so much to her.
Introducing a brand new column on The Public Medievalist: Games!
Pop-culture vikings are often butch masculine stereotypes. The real vikings were often anything but.
We all know werewolves as legendary figures that periodically fly into an unstoppable rage. What you may not know is that in the Middle Ages this was often a metaphor for domestic violence.