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Queenship and the Women of Westeros

Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire

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Editors:
  1. Zita Eva Rohr

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Lisa Benz

    1. Salem, USA

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  • Features essays on female characters in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones such as Daenerys Targaryen, Melisandre, Arya Stark, Cersei Lannister, and Margaery Tyrell, focusing on how they wielded power in their male-dominated world
  • Explores the intersection of academic scholarship on queenship and elite women and popular understandings of the premodern period
  • Highlights the strategies that premodern women used to exert power and influence

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxxiv
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  5. Back Matter

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About this book

Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a unique vantage point from which to study the intersections of elite women and popular understandings of the premodern world. This volume is a wide-ranging study of those intersections. Focusing on female agency and the role of advice, it finds a wealth of continuities and contrasts between the many powerful female characters of Martin’s fantasy world and the strategies that historical women used to exert influence. Reading characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, and Brienne of Tarth with a creative, deeply scholarly eye, Queenship and the Women of Westeros makes cutting-edge developments in queenship studies accessible to everyday readers and fans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Zita Eva Rohr

  • Salem, USA

    Lisa Benz

About the editors

Zita Eva Rohr is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Yolande of Aragon (1381–1442) Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry (Palgrave, 2016).


Lisa Benz is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012) and the co-editor with Zita Eva Rohr of Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060–1600 (Palgrave, 2016).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Queenship and the Women of Westeros

  • Book Subtitle: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire

  • Editors: Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25041-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25040-9Published: 19 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25043-0Published: 19 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25041-6Published: 07 November 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LXXIV, 263

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Women's Studies, History of Early Modern Europe, Fiction

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