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NPR: Game of Thrones and Disability

Posted onJuly 11, 2017February 7, 2019 By David Perry

NPR did a segment on Game of Thrones and disabled characters. Neda Ulaby talked to Rebecca Cokley about Tyrion and asked me for some general overview. I grumbled about Shireen’s death (still pissed, not about her death, but the writing of it), and made a quip about ramps into castles being more important than magical cures. … Continue ReadingNPR: Game of Thrones and Disability

There Ain’t No Dark Ages, Part 97!

Posted onApril 20, 2017February 7, 2019 By David Perry

It’s time for Game of Thrones essays again, I guess, providing easy news hooks to medievalists everywhere. This one from El Pais is excellent, if in Spanish (but Google translate does ok). It takes about the diversity and complexity of the medieval world, and I love this pullquote: La unidad de la Edad Media es … Continue ReadingThere Ain’t No Dark Ages, Part 97!

Game of Thrones and Cultural Memes

Posted onMay 3, 2016February 7, 2019 By David Perry

As you likely know, I write regularly about Game of Thrones for Vice.com. I find the show interesting and often compelling. Its terrible on gender, sometimes very good on disability (because Tyrion is so well written, with Jaime also developing well post the loss of his hand), and complicated in its appropriation of medieval ideas. It’s … Continue ReadingGame of Thrones and Cultural Memes

History and Myth in Game of Thrones

Posted onApril 14, 2015February 7, 2019 By David Perry

Last year, a reporter at the Chicago Tribune called me to ask, “Was medieval life really the way it’s Game of Thrones?” I said yes, of course, nearly everyone had a dragon, was a zombie, or carried around ancient swords made of semi-magical iron. Screenshot: A dragon looms over a cowering shepherd.  depicted during Ok, I … Continue ReadingHistory and Myth in Game of Thrones

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Sigh. No. Vaccine passports are nothing like yellow stars and the analogy doesn't make any sense! But it does make it harder to talk about vaccine passports. It's complicated.

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My latest. "In December, the historian Monica Green published a landmark article, The Four Black Deaths, in the American Historical Review, that rewrites our narrative of this brutal and transformative pandemic. In it, she identifies a “big bang” that created four distinct genetic lineages that spread separately throughout the world and finds concrete evidence that the plague was already spreading from China to central Asia in the 1200s. This discovery pushes the origins of the Black Death back by over a hundred years, meaning that the first wave of the plague was not a decades-long explosion of horror, but a disease that crept across the continents for over a hundred years until it reached a crisis point."

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Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?
Scholar Monica Green combined the science of genetics with the study of old texts to reach a new hypothesis about the plague
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Some of my thoughts on gun violence after the seventh mass shooting in seven days.

- Republicans cannot be shamed or horrified into helping.
- But we can just treat guns like tools.

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