TY - JOUR AU - Preisler Skovgaard, Ane PY - 2019/06/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Det stof som middelalderen er gjort af – Om Game of Thrones-tapetets middelaldermediering JF - Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie JA - Slagmark VL - IS - 79 SE - Tema DO - 10.7146/slagmark.vi79.130727 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/article/view/130727 SP - 29-45 AB - <p>The Game of Thrones Tapestry is a hand-woven and hand-embroidered tapestry&nbsp;which depicts key moments from the HBO TV series Game of Thrones in the style&nbsp;of the Bayeux Tapestry. By analysing particular aspects of its imagery and materiality,&nbsp;the article states that the Game of Thrones Tapestry confirms the way that the&nbsp;Middle Ages are also depicted in the TV series as a time of brutality, barbarism&nbsp;and permeable grotesque bodies, or in short, as the contrast to Modernity. With&nbsp;reference to Art historian Hans Belting’s image theory, it is suggested that one way&nbsp;in which the tapestry confirms this idea of the Middle Ages is through the properties&nbsp;of its medium because as a symbolic body it resembles the Grotesque Body by&nbsp;being permeable and transformable. Because of the tapestry’s ability to mediate the&nbsp;conception of the Middle Ages that characterises the fictional world of Game of&nbsp;Thrones in general, the article proposes that the tapestry can be regarded as a very&nbsp;suitable medium for the images of Game of Thrones which may also explain why&nbsp;this tapestry was created.</p> ER -