Medievalism, Racism, Medievalism

Louise D’Arcens and Sabina Rahman

English Research Seminar

August 6, 2020

The weaponised Middle Ages: Christchurch 2019

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8659870/new-zealand-gun-reform-10-days-jacinda-ardern-brenton-tarrant-christchurch-shooting/

Game of Thrones’s ‘Global South’: Sothoryos

SOTHORYOS

Slaver’s Bay

ESSOSWESTEROS

THE NORTH

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/67u1oh/the_known_world_of_ice_and_fire_9050x6000/

The Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques, 1375

Muslim Spain (al-Andalus)

https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/cresques/detailfromthecatalanatlas.html

Dorne, equivalent to medieval al-Andalus (Muslim Spain)

Filmed at The Royal Alcázar (al-Qasr al-Muriq)

Seville

DORNE

GoT’s ‘Africa’ shifted East

DORNE

SOTHORYOS

Conquest of Iberian peninsula, via Berber North Africa https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/67u1oh/the_known_world_of_ice_and_fire_9050x6000/

https://historiadeluismi.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/espa.jpg

Marlon James’s Dark Star Afro-fantasy novels

https://www.amazon.com.au/Black-Leopard-Wolf-Marlon-James/dp/0735220182/ref=asc_df_0735220182/?tag=googleshopdsk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=428465312108&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18122569365657216583&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9071843&hvtargid=pla-872650626959&psc=1

Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914), pan-Arabist and author of historical fictions of Arab-Islamic history

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jurji-zaidan-renaissance_b_4884826https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurji_Zaydan

Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet

1992

1998

20102000

2005

https://www.versobooks.com/series_collections/115-the-islam-quintet