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Published by Afterschool.my on Aug 24, 2017, 01:51 pm
Game of Thrones has swept across the world and enthralled audiences from all walks of life since its inception on the small screen almost six years ago. But it seems that a couple of professors from Harvard may have been caught up in the bristles of the broom along the way as well, now resulting in the inauguration of the hottest new class on offer within the halls of the hallowed institution, called The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models.
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What may seem like a publicity stunt at first glance slowly unfurls and reveals itself to be an ingenious method to capture the dwindling interest of students, both in medieval studies and other humanities courses. To be helmed by Sean Gilsdorf, a medieval historian and administrative director and lecturer on Medieval Studies, and Racha Kirakosian, an assistant professor of German and the Study of Religion, the idea stemmed when students would regularly draw parallels between medieval epics being read in class and how it was portrayed in episodes of Game of Thrones. While Kirakosian found the interpretations of the two to be wholly divergent, she saw a rare opportunity to connect with her students on common ground.
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This Folklore and Mythology class will look at the way the George R.R. Martin’s series and HBO’s adaptation “echoes and adapts, as well as distorts the history and culture of the ‘medieval world’ of Eurasia from c. 400 to 1500 CE” by exploring ” a set of archetypal characters at the heart of Game of Thrones — the king, the good wife, the second son, the adventurer, and so on — with distinct analogues in medieval history, literature, religion, and legend,” according to a description given to TIME by Sean Gilsdorf.
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If you are wondering what the course syllabus will consists of, Gilsdorf says that medieval biographies of queens will be prime source material. “Game of Thrones does dramatise nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts. Tensions between a queen and the younger women who marry their sons are some ‘Real Housewives of 10th-century Germany’ kind of stuff, where you see these women going after each other,” says Gilsdorf. Sadly, there was no word on whether any of George R.R. Martin’s novels would now qualify as textbooks.
For all the differences that are starkly evident, there are depictions that George R. R. Martin has hit the nail on the head with, as Kirakosian points out that the character of a certain vindictive queen (wonder who that could be) is something shared by both Cersei Lannister and Kriemhild, the main royal character in famous German epic, giving students a rough idea of family rivalries in the Middle Ages.
Classes commence at Harvard this fall (September). So if you are interested, make sure to pack your bags and do not forget to throw in some Dragonglass for good measure. You never know when it might come in handy!
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