Harvard University has announced that it will offer a medieval history course inspired by the epic fantasy drama "Game of Thrones". To be introduced in autumn, the course will be titled "The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models", reported TIME magazine. Along with Gilsdorf, Racha Kirakosian, who is an assistant professor of German and the Study of Religion, will also teach the newly-designed paper at Harvard. Talking about the course, Kirakosian said, "'Game of Thrones' does dramatise nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts. "When I read medieval verse epics with my students, they'd say, 'Oh, that's like in 'Game of Thrones'.

Source: dna June 02, 2017 13:28 UTC