Winter is close: medieval world "Game of Thrones"

The real cultural phenomenon of the 21st century in both the literary and in the television world is “The Song of Ice and the Flame” (the original book epic of the American writer George R. R. Martin) or “The Game of Thrones” (the Screech of the NVO channel) became the object of the set literary and historiographical research. However, to this day there was nothing, so fully and thoroughly considering this work as this book. The fascinating text Caroline Larrington systematizes and consolidates various approaches to the fantasy-world of Westeros from the point of view of our modern and historical realities, and also conducts a comparative analysis of the series and books. Plunging into mythology and psychologism to all the favorite heroes, the author demonstrates how subtly Martin plunged into the medieval history of Europe, imbued with the latest history and studied the widest range of world religions and folklore, creating a really living reality with which everyone can correlate themselves