Iron, fire and ice : the real history that inspired Game of thrones, Ed West

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Iron, fire and ice : the real history that inspired Game of thrones, Ed West

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the real history that inspired Game of thrones

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Ed West

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• Iron, fire and ice : the real history that inspired Game of thrones

Publication

• New York, NY, Skyhorse Publishing, c2019
• New York, NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-413) and index

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Contents

The realm : England and the world in 1314 -- The iron king : France, the reach, and the curse of the templars -- The lion of England : The real Tywin Lannister -- The first men : ancient Britain and Westeros -- "You're no son of mine" : Scotland and the she-wolf -- "We bow down before no man" : Greece, Sparta, and the real unsullied -- Walls of ice and brick : Roman inspirations -- Beyond the wall : Scottish history in Game of Thrones -- The old gods and the new : religion, magic, and monsters in Martin's world and ours -- Winter is coming : the great famine -- The seven : Church and sept -- Dornish Spain : Moorish Spain and Dorne -- Silk ribbons tied round the sword : spellswords, rapers, and the Hundread Years War -- The seven kingdoms : the Andals and the Angles -- The dance of death : Greyscale, the Black Death, and leprosy -- "Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die" : Viking influences on Game of Thrones -- The brethren of the cross : the sept, the church, sparrows, flagellants -- The drowned town : Venice and Braavos -- The small folk : The Jacquerie and the peasants revolt -- Wildfire : Constantinople, the greatest city that was and will be -- The mad king : madness and fire -- Fire and blood : conquerors, castles, bastards, and dwarves -- The death of kings : the tragedy of Richard II -- A song of heroic deeds : tournaments and chivalry -- The curse of the kingslayer : the house of Percy -- "I have other sons" : how England's forgotten civil war inspired Game of Thrones -- A golden crown : Henry V, Falstaff, and Robert Baratheon -- "I am a knight, I shall die a knight" : William Marshal, the sword of the morning -- The witch : Joan of Arc, the woman who stepped into the fire -- The sword in the darkness : the knights templars and the night's watch -- A marriage of fire and milk : Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou -- A clash of steel : justice and vengeance -- The stallion who mounts the world : Dothraki and Mongols -- The smell of blood and roses : York and Somerset -- The rock that bestrides the continents : the rise of the Turks -- The kings in the north : the Percys and the Nevilles -- The sons of the first men : The Tudors -- The Black Dinner : The real Red Wedding -- The young wolf : York and Lancaster at the bridge of bodies

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24 cm

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xi, 441 pages

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9781510735644

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(hardcover)

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2695631

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• on1013819302
• (OCoLC)1013819302