Chapter 7: ‘All Men Must Die, but We Are Not Men’: Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones. “I Choose Violence”: Blowing up King’s Landing in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Cersei, Wildfire, and the Battle of the Blackwater. Chapter 6: Cersei Lannister, Regal Commissions, and the Alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Chapter 5: The Peaceweavers of Winterfell. But the Good Lords Are Dead and the Rest Are Monsters”: Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the Chivalric “Other”. Chapter 4: “All I Ever Wanted Was to Fight for a Lord I Believed in. Daenerys Targaryen: Exceptional She-king. Margaery Tyrell: Traditionally Feminine Queenship. Cersei Lannister: Misogynistic Stereotypes of Female Rule. Chapter 3: Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire. Chapter 2: Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, “Realism,” and the Case of Cersei Lannister. Cixi’s Successions and the Problem of Reform. Chapter 1: A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908). Female Power, Agency, and Advice: Medieval and Early Modern Scholarship. History Versus Martin’s Constructed “Historical World”: Aesthetics and Politics. Medievalism and Martin: Are A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Actually All That Medieval? (And, Does This Matter?). Introduction: Cherchez les femmes: Queenship and the Women of Westeros.
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