Reading

Gerd Althoff, “Lords and their Men” in Friends, Family, and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in early Medieval Europe, (Cambridge, 2004): 102-135. To access this reading, click here and enter the password posted on Blackboard and on our chatboard: https://hist492.opened.ca/readings/

Marcus Schulzke, “Playing the Game of Thrones: Some Lessons from Machiavelli”, Game of Thrones and Philosophy ed. Henry Jacoby (Hoboken: Wiley, 2012): 33-48.

This link takes you to the whole book, so remember we are only reading the chapter by Schulzke (Chapter 3). You are able to download the chapter via the link. 

https://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b3300097

Janice Liedl, “This Honourable Fool” https://jliedl.ca/2013/09/30/this-honourable-fool/

Game of Thrones Episodes

Episodes 5-6

Focus on Episode 7 “You Win or You Die”

Podcast

There is no podcast episode for this week.