Tis meet to consider

Now that Booker Prize winner Marlon James has announced plans for an African medieval epic, how do the past masters stand up?

A writer for The Guardian considers his Top 10:

How far do hit television series such as HBO’s Game of Thrones and the BBC’s recent The Last Kingdom reflect the real medieval worlds of early (and late) medieval Europe and Asia, or of Anglo-Saxon England? The answer, as I found when I was researching the parallels between Game of Thrones and the medieval world for my new book, is: to a surprising degree. Both the show and the book sequence on which it’s based, George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, reflect very closely the cultures, beliefs and practices of this era. From the Mongols to the Vikings, from the Mediterranean trading ports to the Celtic lake-dwelling tribes, Martin’s imagined world brings the medieval vividly to life.