(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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Like a medieval Titanic, the flower of the English nobility drowned in the freezing water. We guess the real life history parallels go beyond House of the Dragon. When word reached Henry about his ...

When scenic artist Rohan Harris received his creative brief for the Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon ... “The overall feel was to be ‘medieval,’” Harris told Artnet News.