Game(s) of Thrones: Medieval Literature and Popular Culture

This week's reading comprises diverging sets of texts: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, John Mandeville's The Book of John Mandeville, and Game of Thrones. For this week's short forum post (about 250 words), I invite you to write about either of the topics listed below or raise questions/concerns...

What did you think of our two readings for this week? Was there anything that stood out to you as interesting, strange, confusing?

Reading through Heng's articles, what seems to be her definition of race? What do you think of it? Is there anything you would add or edit? How does it differ from how...

For this forum post, I'm offering the following questions as prompts but feel free to talk about another topic or raise questions of your choosing.

At the heart of The Horse and His Boy is a tension between the people of Calormen and the people of Narnia. Looking closely at the details of how ...

As always, write on a topic of your choosing or pick one of the following to respond to!

Let's think about the ending of The Horse and His Boy this week. What did you think of it; were you surprised? What about Rabadash's ending? What sort of relationship between Narnia, Archenland, and Calormen ...

You're all now experts in chivalry, so what do you notice about the way knights and chivalric culture are represented in the novel? Who seems to be the most chivalric figure? Is King Arthur's court a good example of a chivalric court? And how does the Green Knight fit into all of this chivalry ...