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?
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 scholars discuss where the show went right and wrong, and what to look forward to in the future.
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 The problem is, the histories he's drawing from are woefully out of date.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.
The Battle of Winterfell would have gone a lot better had our heroes known a thing or two about medieval warfare...
Game of Thrones' dark and cynical interpretation of the Middle Ages is a huge problem. The creators argue that it's a more-realistic version of the Middle Ages, but just because it's edgy, doesn't mean it's real.
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 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.