Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood

Notes on Contributors ixForeword by William Irwin xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: The Winter of Our Discontent 1Brian A. PavlacPart I Kings, Queens, Knights, and Strategy 171 High and Mighty Queens of Westeros 19Kavita Mudan Finn2 A Machiavellian Discourse on Game of Thrones 33Jacopo della Quercia3 Chivalry in Westeros 47Steven Muhlberger4 Of Kings, Their Battles, and Castles 57Brian A. PavlacPart II Slaves, Barbarians, and Other Others 715 Barbarian Colonizers and Postcolonialism in Westeros and Britain 73Shiloh Carroll6 A Defense against the "Other": Constructing Sites on the Edge of Civilization and Savagery 85Brian de Ruiter7 The Eastern Question 97Mat Hardy8 Slaves with Swords: Slave-Soldiers in Essos and in the Islamic World 111Robert J. HaugPart III Women and Children 1239 Rocking Cradles and Hatching Dragons: Parents in Game of Thrones 125Janice Liedl10 "Oh, my sweet summer child": Children and Childhood in Game of Thrones 137Helle Strandgaard Jensen and Magnus Qvistgaard11 Writing the Rules of Their Own Game: Medieval Female Agency and Game of Thrones 147Nicole M. Mares12 The Power of Sansa Stark: A Representation of Female Agency in Late Medieval England 161Danielle AlesiPart IV Religion 17113 Continuity and Transformation in the Religions of Westeros and Western Europe 173Don Riggs14 Religious Violence in Game of Thrones: An Historical Background from Antiquity to the European Wars of Religion 185Maureen Attali15 Coexistence and Conflict in the Religions of Game of Thrones 195Daniel J. Clasby16 "I shall take no wife": Celibate Societies in Westeros and in Western Civilization 209Kris SwankPart V The Background 22517 By Whisper and Raven: Information and Communication in Game of Thrones 227Giacomo Giudici18 What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones 241Sara L. Uckelman, Sonia Murphy, and Joseph Percer19 Setting up Westeros: The Medievalesque World of Game of Thrones 251Gillian PolackAppendix: List of Books and Episodes 261Index 000