Hello and welcome to a very special not a cast, podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a song of ice and fire one chapter a week, but not here. Oh no, not here.

I'm your host Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin. My co-host, Jeff, better known as Brendan Beefish, is taking a couple months off the podcast for work-related reasons.

Soon as he's back, which we expect is going to be late July, early August, we will be

resuming the regular weekly podcast with a Storm of Swords.

Until then, I'll be putting out weekly episodes with rotating guest hosts on a variety

of topics, as well as audio and text posts on my own.

And I'm very happy to welcome my guest for this episode. Shiloh,

thank you so much for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are like my first A Song of Ice and Fire podcast. So this is super exciting. Well, we're honored to have you on,

or at least I am. Jeff is here in spirit, of course, as will be the case for the next couple

months. I'm sure he's less honored and more sarcastic.

You know what?

I think you hit the mail on the head there, unfortunately. But we've been talking about having you on for the main cast as well, which we will

be doing once Jeff returns.

So today we're going to be talking about a topic near and dear to your heart and a topic

that I don't know much about beyond the margins, and I'm looking forward to learning more and talking about, and that is the topic of medievalism.

Before we launch into it, our usual spoiler warning, all published books, five novels, three Dunkin'Neck novellas, histories, interviews, sample chapters, Game of Thrones, the TV show, anything and everything.

We're not going to be talking about just a song of ice and fire, but we will be talking about a song of ice and fire, so that applies.

So, medievalism.

How would you describe this term to someone who might be vaguely familiar with it or just

or not really have any clue what we're talking about here?

Well, the way that I usually explain it to people is we have the Middle Ages, which is the period

that ran from about 500 CE to 1500,

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