Research Catalog

Title

Queenship and the women of Westeros : female agency and advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire / Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rohr, Zita Eva
• Benz, Lisa

Description

lxxiv, 263 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Is the world of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a unique vantage point from which to study the intersections of elite women and popular understandings of the premodern world. This volume is a wide-ranging study of those intersections. Focusing on female agency and the role of advice, it finds a wealth of continuities and contrasts between the many powerful female characters of Martin's fantasy world and the strategies that historical women used to exert influence. Reading characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, and Brienne of Tarth with a creative, deeply scholarly eye, Queenship and the Women of Westeros makes cutting-edge developments in queenship studies accessible to everyday readers and fans.--

Series Statement

Queenship and power

Uniform Title

Queenship and power.

Subjects

• History
• Martin, George R. R > Song of ice and fire
• Game of thrones (Television program)
• Women > Middle Ages
• Song of ice and fire (Martin, George R. R.)
• Martin, George R. R > Characters
• Characters and characteristics
• Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
• 500-1500

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A Game of Thrones in China: the case of Cixi, Empress-Dowager of China (1835-1908) / James J. Hudson -- Queen of sad mischance: medievalism, "realism," and the case of Cersei Lannister / Kavita Mudan Finn -- Westerosi queens: medievalist portrayal of female power and authority in A Song of Ice and Fire / Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun -- "All I ever wanted was to fight for a lord I believed in. But the good lords are dead and the rest are monsters" : Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the chivalric "other" / Iain A. MacInnes -- The peaceweavers of Winterfell / Kris Swank -- Cersei Lannister, regal commissions, and the alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire / Curtis Runstedler -- "All men must die, but we are not men": Eastern faith and feminine power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones / Mikayla Hunter -- Daenerys the Unready: advice and ruling in Meereen / Shiloh Carroll -- The royal minorities of Game of Thrones / Charles E. Beem -- Wicked women and the Iron Throne: the two-fold tragedy of witches as advisors in Game of Thrones / Sheilagh Ilona O'Brien -- Afterword: playing, winning and losing the Game of Thrones: reflections on female succession in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones in comparison to the Premodern Era / Elena Woodacre.

Call Number

JFD 20-1402

ISBN

• 3030250407
• 9783030250409

OCLC

1104220964

Title

Queenship and the women of Westeros : female agency and advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire / Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Queenship and power

Queenship and power.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

500-1500

Added Author

Rohr, Zita Eva, editor.

Benz, Lisa, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-1402