Medievalism Dr. Alicia Mackenzie

Pugh, Tison and Angela Jane Weisl. Medievalisms. Making the Past in the Present. Routledge, 2013. 

Kaufman, Amy. “Medieval Unmoored.” Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 1-11.

To learn more about Kathleen E. Kennedy, see: https://themedievaldrk.wordpress.com/

To hear more about Alicia McKenzie’s work on Skyrim and other video games, take a listen to: https://www.medievalists.net/2020/03/medieval-video-games/

Sadly, Dr. Mackenzie passed away in 2022 before the edits of her book were completed. I am hopeful that someone has taken up that task and the book will be published in the near future.

Race, Racism, and the White Saviour Complex with Dr. Shiloh Carroll

For some resources to help you explore race and racism in Game of Thrones, see:

Cord J. Whitaker, “Game of Thrones’ Peasants are a Problem of White Supremacy–and Its Victims, too” (May 19, 2019) https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2019/05/game-of-thrones-peasants-are-problem-of.html

Stefani Engelstein, “Is Game of Thrones Racist?” (April 10, 2019) https://medium.com/dukeuniversity/is-game-of-thrones-racist-5e58a73f27bc

Dorothy Kim, “Teaching Medieval Studies in a Time of White Supremacy” (August 28, 2017) https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/08/teaching-medieval-studies-in-time-of.html

Isis Nelson, “White Saviorism in HBO’s Game of Thrones” (August 1, 2016) https://medium.com/@isisnelson/white-saviorism-in-got-df860b24d972

Ben Philippe, “Missandei, Grey Worm, and Game of Thrones’ Racial Blind Spot” (April 22, 2019) https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/04/game-of-thrones-missandei-grey-worm-season-8-episode-2

Aja Romano, “Game of Thrones’ Missandei controversy, explained” (May 6, 2019) https://www.vox.com/2019/5/6/18530526/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-death-who-died-missandei-daenerys

Jennifer Vineyard, ” Game of Thrones: Grey Worm’s fate surprised everyone but the man who plays him” (April 29, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/arts/television/grey-worm-game-of-thrones.html

Matthew Yglesias, “Game of Thrones’ Dany/Dothraki storyline doesn’t make any sense” (June 3, 2016) https://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11834606/game-of-thrones-dany-dothraki-no-sense

Laurie, Timothy. “Serialising Gender, Breeding Race: Biopolitics in Game of Thrones.” Paper delivered at Trans/Forming Feminisms: Media, Technology, Identity. November 23-25, 2015.

Young, Helen. “Place and Time: Medievalism and Making Race.” Year’s Work in Medievalism 28 (2013): 1-6.

Downes, Stephanie and Helen Young. “The maiden fair: 19th century medievalist art and the gendered aesthetics of whiteness in HBO’s Game of Thrones.” Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 10.2 (2019): 219-235.

Sexual Violence and Incest with Dr. Sara McDougall

Lucia Akkard, “A Medieval #MeToo”, The Public Medievalist (October 28, 2018) https://www.publicmedievalist.com/metoo/

Anna Waymack, “Teaching de raptu meo: Chaucer, Chaumpaigne, and Consent in the Classroom”, Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 53.1 (2017): 150-175.

Hiram Kumper, “Learned men and skilful matrons: medieval expertise and the forensics of rape in the Middle Ages”, Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages ed. Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler (Brill, 2014): 88-108.

Caroline Dunn, “The language of ravishment in medieval England”, Speculum 86.1 (2011): 79-116. 

Christof Rolker, “Kings, Bishops, and incest: extension and subversion of the ecclesiastical marriage jurisdiction around 1100”, Studies in Church History 43 (2007): 159-168.

Religion and Violence with Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker

To access Dr. Ifft Decker’s podcast “Media-eval” search for it using your favourite podcast app, or go here: https://soundcloud.com/user-834389367

Material mentioned in the podcast episode on “Religion and Violence” or other readings related to religion and violence in Game of Thrones:

Ian P. Gunn, “Why Game of Thrones is the best religious show on television”  https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/30/game-thrones-best-religious-show-television/

“Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin reveals which religion inspired the Faith Militant” https://ew.com/article/2015/05/24/game-thrones-george-rr-martin-religion/

“The Old Gods and the New: a Guide to the religions on Game of Thrones” https://mashable.com/2016/06/06/game-of-thrones-religion/

Women and Power (Queenship) with Dr. Miriam Shadis

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).