“An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. Martin answered that he was depicting reality, and that this was what it was like in the Middle Ages. Game of Thrones tampers with traditional gender roles RELATED: How dirty and stinky were medieval cities?.
But here the humour repeatedly plays off the idea that sexual abuse must have been very common in medieval Norwegian Viking communities. "Norsemen", which is being shown in the US on Netflix and on NRK in Norway as “Vikingane”, is a comedy. She also notes, however, that in Martin’s first five books, there are over 200 portrayals of rape and attempted rape.
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Martin, has clearly said he was inspired by what he believes must have been a very brutal medieval period.Ī blogger who calls herself “Tafkar” follows the series and tallied the number of rapes and attempted rapes she saw in the series. But the author of the books on which the series is based, George R.R. Of course, “Game of Thrones” is a fantasy. The first season was shown in 2011, and when the fifth season ended in 2015, most of the lead female characters, including Sansa, Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Meera Reed, Gilly, and 24 other women had either been raped or subjected to an attempted rape. “Game of Thrones” is an American television series based on the books "A Song of Ice and Fire" by the author George R.R.
Raping a woman would not only have been an assault against her, but also against the community around her.” "Women were an integral part of this culture. “The culture of the Vikings and the Middle Ages was a culture of honour,” he said. He points out that researchers would have found far more evidence of rape in the extensive literature we have from the Middle Ages, if it had been common at that time. Hans Jacob Orning is an expert in the Middle Ages from the University of Oslo.
Ljungqvist is a historian at Stockholm University and has conducted two separate studies on rape during the Middle Ages. "If we look at Scandinavia, there is no evidence that rape was more common in the Middle Ages than in the two centuries that followed, the 1500s and 1600s," says Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist.
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