Reading
Elena Woodacre, “Afterword: Playing, Winning, and Losing the Game of Thrones: Reflections on Female Succession in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice and Game of Thrones in Comparison to the Premodern Era”, in Queenship and the Women of Westeros ed. Zita Rohr and Lisa Benz, (Palgrave, 2020): 231-252. http://prxy.lib.unbc.ca/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2291555&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Woodacre’s article is also available on our readings page:
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, “Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire” Available on our readings page:
Simple Rajrah, “Why Are All the Lead Women Characters Crushed in the Game of Thrones series end?” (15 May 2019)
https://feminisminindia.com/2019/05/15/game-of-thrones-women-characters/
Game of Thrones Episodes
Episodes 55-59 and 61-62.
Focus on Episode 60 “The Winds of Winter” and Episode 63 “The Queen’s Justice”
Podcast
I interview Dr. Miriam Shadis about queenship and female power in the Middle Ages.
For the podcast episode, see: Queenship and Female Power
Resources:
Queenship and the Women of Westeros ed. Zita Rohr and Lisa Benz, (Palgrave, 2020).
Miriam Shadis, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Lucy Pick, Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the early Spanish Kingdoms (Cornell, 2017).
Sara McDougall, Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in medieval Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).