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New Acquisitions: How It Wasn’t: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages, Part II – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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This series is now available in an audio format; the entire playlist can be listened to here. This is the second post in a three-part series where we look at the question “how accurate is Gam…

This series is now available in an audio format; the entire playlist can be listened to here. This is the second post in a three-part series where we look at the question “how accurate is Game of Thrones to the European Middle Ages” – and if not the Middle Ages, what periods of history does it most resemble? This post will look at this question with respect to cultural norms (especially norms connected to gender and the family) and religion, which, as we will see, are closely intertwined. Part I of this series, which looked at this question from the perspective of military affairs, is…

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