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Your hosts and guest Abi ( @szegfu.bsky.social ) take you on a trip around the world and across time to learn more about George's favourite topic, probably: food!

We discuss having to adapt to a new food culture in real life, like Catelyn and Tyrion as well as Areo Hotah and Ser Arys do in the books, what people eat in the North(s), what spices were found in medieval European kitchens, how to preserve food when you don't have a fridge or an ice cell (or even if you have one), how to recreate Joffrey's wedding feast but make it actually extravagant and how amazing it is to learn Hungarian with curses.

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Content, sources and ressources that are not our own experiences:

Lo:

-  https://www.samer.se/mat

Virginie

- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink

- Les Plaisir au Moyen Âge, Jean Verdon

Who wants to play? Swedish games the Ironborn would not shy from or French games Tyrion approves?

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Content, sources and ressources:

Lo:

- "Kropp, Känslor och Relationer - Om sexualitet, samtycke och rättigheter för förskola  och grundskolans tidigare år" - Johanna Ivarsson, Loui Larsson, Sofie Olovsson, RM Ratesregn & Karin Salmson

- "Så utvecklas barn av att leka" -Jenny Magnusson Österberg

- "Längdåkningens historia i Sverige" - Jonas Cederquist

- "Pepparkakskull"

Virginie

for images of better quality than my own:

- Charlemagne chess game that was made in 11th C southern Italy, sculpted in ivory

- https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/lelephant-de-charlemagne?mode=desktop

For words:

- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink

- Les Plaisir au Moyen Âge, Jean Verdon

- Pieces of Power: Medieval Chess and the Male Homosocial Desire, Jenny Adams, University of North Texas

-

Mark Anthony Hall (2013) Magia Gry: Sztuka rywalizacji (The Magic of

https://doi.org/10.1179/146195713X13721616775755

We debute a new episode series, all about, who could have predicted: ASOIAF. Like, actually, the books/ shows and not historical parallels.

In this first episode, we talk about the greatest leader possibly ever, and certainly, a speaker for GRRM's pet project (to finish off the work JRR Tolkien left pending, something something genocide of baby orcs and tax policy): Tormund. If you've only watched the show and are confused about the previous statement (or if you have read the books and are confused about the previous statement), worry not: we contextualise everything we analyse.

As this is the first episode of this kind for us, please let us know what you think, it's quite precious!

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We take you on a trip to discover how fascists in our world and Westeros use what they like in the Middle Ages, pick and choose and lump it all together and bam! have lovely (or not) symbols to show and things to say to justify their hatred and actions. We mostly only look at our world, and how Vikings and the Crusades are used, and look at what GRRM uses and doesn't use.

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Also, check out our Patreon where you can find out how to get bonus episodes and other cool things (such as shoot outs at the Sea Pounce level -who doesn't dream of a positive review of their person?). Also, we've just introduced our brand new super very special tier: Stannis the cat that was promised <3

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Resources:

Lo: 

Expo (in general) but specifically:

https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/symbollexikon/ 

https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-blev-balder-cruisers-demonstrerar-med-nazister/ 

https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-bakom-fasaden-rasism-och-valdsromantik/

https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/wiki/nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-nmr/ 

“Embodying ‘the Nordic race’: imaginaries of Viking heritage in the online communications of the Nordic Resistance Movement” - Christoffer Kølveraa 

“Freyja: Rape, Immigration, and the Medieval in Alt-Right Discourse” - Ali Frauman

“Anti-refugee Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of Soldiers of Odin” - Mattias Ekman

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell

Virginie:

https://www.lavie.fr/idees/histoire/leglise-doit-elle-avoir-honte-des-croisades-15718.php

https://orientxxi.info/magazine/islamophobie-un-mot-un-mal-plus-que-centenaires,1155

https://orientxxi.info/magazine/saint-louis-un-roi-prisonnier-des-cliches,0601

https://orientxxi.info/magazine/une-compassion-tres-politique-pour-les-chretiens-d-orient,1300

https://orientxxi.info/magazine/l-extreme-droite-francaise-le-proche-orient-et-l-obsession-islamiste,7440

https://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/33623

https://www.nonfiction.fr/article-9560-actuel-moyen-age-eric-zemmour-et-les-croisades-fact-checking.htm

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i06334668/jm-le-pen-sur-l-islam-et-l-espace-chretien

https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfsoc_0035-2969_1961_num_2_2_5933

https://bsky.app/profile/hmedievaliste.bsky.social/post/3lfoudwouwk2c

In this episode, your hosts take you on a trip all the way to the Early Middle Ages and back, to discuss queens of France and Sweden -a couple each, no one is jealous! And also Cercei, a lot. Somehow. And ask the real question: is Catelyn the most medieval character of ASOIAF?

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Also, check out our Patreon where our first actual bonus episode drops in a couple of days! Virginie reads the first chapters of LOTR for the first time, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!)

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Content, sources and ressources:

Lo tells us about Margareta Eriksdotter aka Margareta Leijonhufvud:

https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/kungar-drottningar/margareta-leijonhufvud-vasadrottningen 

and about someone never mentioned on this podcast ever yet (jokes), Kristina:

“Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography” - Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake 

https://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/a-most-uncommon-woman-cersei-lannisters-gender-trouble/ 

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” - Susanna Åkerman

https://livrustkammaren.se/press/pridevisningar-kung-kristina-en-queer-queen-i-bilder-av-kristina-under-prideveckan/ 

https://books.openedition.org/septentrion/55169

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radegund

https://siefar.org/dictionnaire/fr/Jeanne_de_Bourgogne_(1295-1348)

https://passionmedievistes.fr/super-joute-royale-9-rois-xiveme-siecle/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_the_Lame

This is but a taste of what is to come on our Patreon!

In this bonus episode, one of your hosts discovers the prologue of the Fellowship of the Ring as she ventures into reading the Lord of the Rings for the first time. Sometimes, your other host represses a remark so there is suspense: what went wrong? Please don't spoil her: Your newbie host is curious and thrilled!

She looks not only at the meta analysis and the story told, but also at the anthropological and linguistic elements provided in the prologue, and questions whether Tolkien was messing with both anthropologists and historical linguists. She thinks yes. It's fun!

The Orcs of Winterfell get mentioned, as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a Disney Documentary on dwarves. French medievalist Vincent Ferré, whose incredible work can be found here is saluted (and Virginie looks forward to finally be able to read his most famous works when she's completed her read-through)

As always, feel free to write to us on Bluesky, Instagram or send us an email: it's @ RagmansPod everywhere. You can also leave us Millions of stars and comments on your podcast app of choice and of course join us on Patreon!

In this episode, your hosts tell you stories you best not try at home: political assassinations, successful and failed, in Sweden and France.

From the Middle Ages to the 2OthC, discover stories bigger than fiction which sadly don't include dragons :((

Also, we have a Very Exciting Announcement: we're starting a Patreon! Find out more at the end of the episode and directly at the mouth of the river of time: Ragman's Patreon

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Sources and ressources:

Historielingo - Avsnitt 63: Håtunaleken

Historielingo - Avsnitt 64: Nyköpings gästabud

P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek

P3 Historia: Johan III - Krig, intriger och en mördad bror

https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/olof-palme 

https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/palmemordet 

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordet_p%C3%A5_Olof_Palme 

Olof Palme - Hanoi Speech 1972 (eng)

https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/pages_histoire/40095

https://dissidences.hypotheses.org/5716

https://www.histoire-en-citations.fr/citations/portrait-de-jean-jaures-en-citations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lm27IxQS8c 

https://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/143879

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe85009640/l-attentat-du-petit-clamart

https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/gendinfo/histoire/adjudant-francis-marroux-le-destin-d-un-gendarme-de-la-resistance-a-l-elysee

In this episode, your hosts take you on a journey to medieval and not so medieval Europe to explore the rich world of heraldry to compare it to its Westeros counterpart: sigils. 

Who gets to have a coat of arms? How to pick your doodle? What are the rules? Are imaginary coat of arms a new thing?

We discovered so much we didn't know about, it was an actual delight to learn so much -and hopefully you enjoy learning with us. It's not just pretty images, but it is *also* pretty images. And identity. 

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Virginie:

- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge : "héraldique", article par Michel Pastoureau

-         http://chroniques.bnf.fr/archives/sept2002/numero_courant/manifestations/pastoureau_inter.htm

- Blasonner en latin (xiie-xvie siècle) - Michel Pastoureau https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/21154?lang=fr

https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/110

https://books.openedition.org/pufr/16462?lang=fr

https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/image/ba845ff7-2c3b-4a38-b1dd-02cfefe6a771-armorial-la-table-ronde-1

http://quetedugraal.over-blog.com/blasons-des-chevaliers-de-la-table-ronde/

https://herald-dick-magazine.blogspot.com/2015/09/la-quete-du-graal-dans-les-manuscrits.html?m=1

Lo:

 https://varumarkesmanual.uppsala.se/tillampningar/uppsalas-stadsvapen/

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_stadsvapen 

“Heraldiken i Sverige” - Magnus Bäckmark & Jesper Wasling

In this episode we discuss season 2 of House of the Dragon with a special guest, Bidonica! Together we talk about art in ASOIAF/HotD compared to the history of art in our world, (trans)gender politics in HotD and our world, language and power, class politics, and more! 

And also why Italian fan artists draw Sansa with dark hair... 

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Where to find Bidonica:

https://x.com/bidonica1

https://bidonicart.tumblr.com/

https://bidonica.tumblr.com/

Art in HotD tag: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20hotd

Art in Westeros: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20westeros 

Bidonica's references:

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani 1980 

Pentiment (videogame) 

Proserpine (artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth (artwork by John Singer Sargent)

Dance (artwork by Henri Matisse)

Erotic revelry - Athenian Red Figure column krater

Lo's references:

“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” by Susanna Åkerman

”A brief trans history” - Lo

“Writing migration through the body” by Emma Bond

“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Lee Colwil 

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell

“Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions” by Alan Weedon

“What does “Two-Spirit” Mean?” - by Geo Neptune

Virginie's references:

Leitis in Waiting (documentary)

Kumo Hina (documentary). And a shorter clip from the documentary, explaining what māhū is.

Ragman's Harbour episode 2 "Of Scandals and bastards" (references for all discussions about bastards can be found there!)

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Are you feeling bereft after season 2 of HotD? Not sure what to do with your free time? We are here for you! In this mini-episode, we provide tv show recommendations to fill the void that HotD might have left in your life.

Lo's recommendations:

SKAM

Young Royals

Ragnarok 

Virginie's recommendations: 

Polar Park

Icon of French Cinema

Peepoodo and the Super Fuck Friends

Unplanned bonus chat about:

Jordskott

Maria Wern

Nói albinói (Icelandic movie)

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BlueSky

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