This article shows how I have been lately combining my research in the cultural
history of the Spanish Middle Ages and Early Renaissance with the TV show Game
of Thrones for teaching purposes. I have been able to design a capstone seminar to
attract students interested in the popular medievalising TV fiction, proving them
than most of the elements of its success are not original, but they can also be found in
most of medieval European cultures, including the Iberian Peninsula. In this paper
I examine three main examples (Remesal interview between Philip the Handsome
and Ferdinand the Catholic as narrated in Bernáldez’s Memorias; the legend of the
Siete Infantes de Lara; and the Coplas del tabefe), providing both a methodology and
course structure for other colleagues that perhaps might be interested in using Game
of Thrones, or any other TV show, in order to take advantage in Higher Education
of the medieval connection existing in some aspects of contemporary pop culture.