Peter Hitchens, the Christian and God-believing brother of Christopher Hitchens, penned an insightful piece for First Things in which he castigates the “Game of Thrones” series for creating a counterfeit medieval mythology that dwells on vice and cruelty at the expense of virtue and chivalry.
Hitchens begins by recalling the two great literary works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — “The White Company” and “Sir Nigel” — both of which understood the Middle Ages for what they were: a time of intense virtue piercing through a world of impenetrable darkness, the crux upon which all Medieval romanticism is based. Conan Doyle explained it thus to his readers:
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