Queenship and the Women of Westeros

I. Queenship.- 1. A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress-Dowager of China (1835-1908).- 2. Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, "Realism," and the Case of Cersei Lannister.- 3. Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire.- II. Female Agency.- 4. "All I ever wanted was to fight for a lord I believed in. But the good lords are dead and the rest are monsters." Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the Chivalric "Other".- 5. The Peaceweavers of Winterfell.- 6. Cersei Lannister, Regal Commissions, and the Alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.- 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.- III. The Role of Advice.- 8. Daenerys the Unready: Advice and Ruling in Meereen.- 9. The Royal Minorities of Game of Thrones.- 10. Wicked Womenand the Iron Throne: The Two-Fold Tragedy of Witches as Advisors in Game of Thrones.- 11. Afterword: Playing, Winning and Losing the Game of Thrones: Reflections on Female Succession in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones in Comparison to the Premodern Era.

Zita Eva Rohr is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry (Palgrave, 2016).
Lisa Benz is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012) and the co-editor with Zita Eva Rohr of Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Palgrave, 2016).