(HBO, home to “Game of Thrones” and “House of the Dragon,” shares parent company Warner Bros. Discovery with CNN.) Is sexual and reproductive violence historically accurate to the medieval ...

We see it in Gilgamesh's battle against Humbaba, Beowulf's doomed struggle against Grendel and the dragon ... that resonates with Monster Hunter: the medieval bestiary. The concept of the bestiary ...

But it can reflect medieval conflicts, values and norms. The first season of HBO's House of the Dragon exemplified this. Its narrative, as noted by co-creator George R. R. Martin, drew inspiration ...

"House of the Dragon," the new "Game of Thrones" spinoff from HBO, depicts a world spun of fantasy. Kim’s scholarship has been published in numerous respected medieval studies publications, and she ...

Students in my medieval history courses often wonder whether historical reality can be gleaned from medieval cinematic fantasy. I tell them that fantasy does not aspire to historical verisimilitude.

The fire-breathing dragon—that denizen of the medieval imagination—exists in Westeros. Rhaenyra’s pursuit of the throne may be fraught with difficulties, but she is a dragon-rider ...

However, popular fantasy, unencumbered by the competing priority of "getting it right," can, in broad strokes, reflect the values of the medieval society that inspires it. "House of the Dragon" is ...

The fire-breathing dragon – that denizen of the medieval imagination – exists in Westeros. Rhaenyra’s pursuit of the throne may be fraught with difficulties, but she is a dragon-rider ...