Ep 15 - Queens: they want to break free

Ragman’s Harbour

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

Content, sources and ressources:

Lo tells us about Margareta Eriksdotter aka Margareta Leijonhufvud:

https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/Margaretadrottning

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/

Virginie feels right at home, after a whole episode 14 without Middle Ages and talks about Queen (Sainte) Radegonde:

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

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

and Jeanne de Bourgogne/ Joan the Lame:

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

(and then she makes light of Macron killing democracy because Lo inspired her and it takes away some of the pain)