Dark Souls is bleak and hard as hell. The 'knights' of the series are much closer to those of medieval stories than modern power fantasies.
Medieval women were not illiterate princesses in towers. They read and wrote, and some became literary giants in their time.
In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right?
A brand new podcast from The Public Medievalist! Game of Thrones has come and gone, and have we got a postmortem panel for you! Three scholars discuss where the show went right and wrong, and what to look forward to in the future.
Welcome to The Public Medievalcast, a new podcast by the team here at The Public Medievalist!
Why do even the best historical video games encourage its players to act like megalomaniacs or hoarders?
If "History is written by the victors", who was victorious in Game of Thrones—not on the battlefield, but in writing the history books?
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 The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.
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.