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…
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The Middle Ages on TV, Film, and in Video Games
A lot of Disney films haven't aged well. How can you help your kids understand a film like Sleeping Beauty, without just throwing it in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Battle of Winterfell would have gone a lot better had our heroes known a thing or two about medieval warfare...