Chivalry in Westeros
Steven Muhlberger
Chivalry is easier to discuss as an ideal than a historical phenomenon. Students and fans of chivalry often try identify live up some impossible standard “true chivalry.” This idolatrization leaves unexplained. In Game Thrones, key the culture Westeros. Like in late Middle Ages Western Europe (roughly fourteenth fifteenth centuries), Westeros both set practices central aristocratic life whole. double nature creates problems when discussing chivalry. chapter explores most important features medieval how those compare similar phenomena Thrones.