Ragman’s Harbour

17_a Game of Games

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 ofthe Game: The Art of the Contest)Échecs et Trictrac: Fabrication et u des jeux de tables au Moyen Âge. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 23 juin au 18 novembre 2012 au Musée du château de MayenneArt du jeu, jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l'occident médiéval. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 28 novembre 2012 au 4 mars 2013 au Musée de Cluny — Musée national du Moyen Âge, ParisKõrts keskaegses linnas: Näituse ‘Poriveski Kõrts’. Kataloog/Inn in a Medieval Town, Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘Poriveski Kõrts’ 13 May to 11 November 2011Religions in Play: Games, Rituals and Virtual Worlds, European Journal of Archaeology, 16:3, 574-580, DOI: 10.1179/146195713X13721616775755
https://doi.org/10.1179/146195713X13721616775755
 
 

the Harbour's reader -a: Tormund

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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16- Make Westeros Great Again --political recuperation of medievalism

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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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

Ep 15 - Queens: they want to break free

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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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)
 

Bonus 1 - LOTR Book Club - prologue

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)
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14 Bloody shadows on the wall

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:
Lo
Nyköpings gästabud
Historielingo - Avsnitt 63: Håtunaleken
Historielingo - Avsnitt 64: Nyköpings gästabud
Killing of Erik XIV
P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek
P3 Historia: Johan III - Krig, intriger och en mördad bror
Assassination of Olof Palme
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)
Virginie
Henri IV
https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/pages_histoire/40095
 
Jean Jaurès 
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 
Louis-Philippe
https://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/143879
De Gaulle
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
 
 

Ep 13 "Oh the banners!": of sigils and heraldry

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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Sources: 
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
Les Armoiries de Paris - Marc DECLERCK
Le Blason des Temps Nouveau - Catalogue de l’exposition
Armorial de la ville de Paris
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
 

12 And the dragons danced (HotD season 2 discussion w/Bidonica)

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!

11 Mini-episode: tv show recommendations

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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10 Mini-episode: book recommendations!

During this HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the second of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk books!
 
Lo’s books & authors:
Stöld (Stolen) - Ann-Helén Laestadius (Sápmi/Sweden)
Kallocain - Karin Boye (Sweden)
Muminböckerna (The Moomin Books) - Tove Jansson (Finland)
Virginie’s books & authors:
La Jument Verte (the Green Mare) by Marcel Aymé (France)
Métaphysique des Tubes (the character of rain) by Amélie Nothomb (Belgium)
Daniel Pennac’s “Malaussène Saga” (<- unofficial name): The Scapegoat, The Fairy Gunmother, Write to Kill, Monsieur Malaussène, Passion Fruit (France)
Svend Åge Madsen’s At Fortælle Menneskene (Narrating the People) and Tugt og Utugt i Mellemtiden (Virtue and Vice in the Middle Time) (Denmark, in Danish)
 
Unplanned bonus chat about:
Lo: Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden). 
Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber’s daughter) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden).
And other assorted books by Astrid Lindgren. 
 
Virginie: Astérix by Goscinny & Uderzo (France).
Tintin by Hergé (Belgium).
Ps: the “twelve things to do of Astérix” is actually called “the Twelve Tasks of Astérix” and the task where they have to get a permit (A38) is called "The Place that sends you mad"
 
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