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…
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? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical…
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…
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...
A Brazilian medievalist reflects on what Notre Dame means to them, and what works of art like it add to life.