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Harvard will offer a course based on 'Game of Thrones'
Finally, a way to justify all those hours spent binge-watching HBO.
The course titled "The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models" seeks to show how the movie, which is based on George R.R. Martin's series A song on Ice and Fire, "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."
Gilsdorf, a medieval historian and Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, is co-teaching the class with Racha Kirakosian, an assistant professor of German and the Study of Religion.
Harvard is far from the first to lure its students into courses with Game of Thrones-adjacent subject matter. UC Berkeley has offered multiple courses that draw inspiration from the series. In 2015, it offered a film studies course, "Film Genre: Game of Thrones" centered on the show's theatrical themes.
And this summer, the school will offer a six-week course titled "The Linguistics of Game of Thrones and the Art of Language Invention," taught by Dothraki creator David J. Peterson.
Talking points:
1. How did the idea come about? How do you like this way of teaching history?
- "When I read medieval verse epics with my students, they'd say, 'Oh, that's like in Game of Thrones,'" she says. "No, if anything at all, it's the other way around. Isn't it partly our job [as professors] to use that interest and go deeper?" Kirakosian said.
- Harvard's medieval studies professors hope that the 100-level course can leverage student interest in Game of Thrones into a greater interest in the humanities. As Time noted, student interest in this area of study has waned in recent years, per an American Academy of Arts & Sciences study that reported an 8.7 percent decline in bachelor's degrees awarded in this subject area between 2012 and 2014.
2. Examples of true reflection of history in Game of Thrones:
- According to Gilsdorf, "Game of Thrones does dramatize 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." ( Serse Lanister vs. Majerie who seduced two of serse's sons)
- The red wedding where Rob Stark the young King of the North and other Starks were murdered was influenced by …
3. Season 7 is coming.
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