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Game of Thrones Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages

How Medieval are the Eunuchs in Game of Thrones?

by Jes Battis on November 14, 2019

Castration is a spectre that looms large in Game of Thrones. But how common were eunuchs in the actual Middle Ages? Does Game of Thrones exaggerate their importance to medieval culture, or simply reveal how central they were?

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Who Won the Game of Thrones?

by Paul B. Sturtevant on May 23, 2019

If "History is written by the victors", who was victorious in Game of Thrones—not on the battlefield, but in writing the history books?

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is Based in History—Outdated History

by Kavita Mudan Finn on May 16, 2019

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 The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.

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Game of Thrones’ Medieval Crap

by Kathleen E. Kennedy on July 22, 2017

Poor Sam got his hands seriously dirty in the last episode of Game of Thrones. Let's dig into the real history of all the crap he had to deal with.

Game of Thrones Race, Racism, and the Middle Ages

Game of Thrones’ Racism Problem

by Helen Young on July 21, 2017

Game of Thrones doesn’t just have a “diversity problem,” it has a racism problem. Part XXVI of our series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Helen Young.

Film and TV Reviews

The Green Knight Shows the Dark Age After the ‘Glorious’ Conquest

by Sabina Rahman on September 14, 2021

The Green Knight, a new film from A24, represents an Arthurian world not as the glorious Camelot we know, but as post-conquest occupiers of a land not their own.

Games

Medieval Robots in Mega Man VI

by Geoffrey B. Elliott on April 1, 2021

What's the classic sci-fi game Mega Man got to do with the Middle Ages and medievalism? A whole lot, actually!

In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021)

by Kavita Mudan Finn on February 18, 2021

We recently lost a great public medievalist: Sharon Kay Penman, author of a massive corpus of medieval historical novels. If you don't know her work, you don't know what you're missing.

Film and TV

Were the Middle Ages Really “The Good Place”?

by Paul B. Sturtevant on January 10, 2020

NBC's "The Good Place" says that nobody has gone to heaven in 521 years. That makes the last truly good person medieval! But were the Middle Ages really so good?

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