Week Twelve: Warfare

Readings

Ken Mondschein, “The Wager of Battle: Wars, Duels, and Tournament” in Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War, (McFarland, 2017): 105-132. This article and the endnotes are available on our readings page:

Readings

Paul B. Sturtevant, “You Know Nothing about Medieval Warfare, Jon Snow”, The Public Medievalist (May 2, 2019) https://www.publicmedievalist.com/got-warfare/

Game of Thrones Episodes

Episodes 64-69 and 71-72

Focus on Episode 70 “The Long Night” but we’ll also talk about the controversial conclusion to the whole series Episode 73 “The Iron Throne”

Podcast

I speak with Peter Konieczny about warfare in the Middle Ages and how it is represented on Game of Thrones.