Not through the explosive power of one nuclear bomb, but through progressive strikes that were meant to burn the city to ash and everyone in it.” “The bombing of Dresden was during World War II,” Sturtevant says, “and it was when the Allies used incendiary devices. The city of Dresden, photographed after the savage firebombing that occurred during WWII. The killing was so indiscriminate, and the destruction so wanton, that it’s said one of the Crusaders coined the phrase “Kill them all! God will know his own.” That phrasing would eventually be modernized into “Kill ’em all, and let God sort ’em out.”īut the intensity of the destruction was such that the only true corollary, in Sturtevant’s mind, was in the more modern concept of total warfare. Under the reign of Pope Innocent III, a Catholic force attacked the European city of Béziers. But, so too did a lesser-known episode from early Christian history called the Albigensian Crusade.
Sturtevant says the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, the climax of the First Crusade, sprang instantly to mind as Dany took flight over King’s Landing. To him, the massacre at King’s Landing was reminiscent of similar atrocities that occurred after the end of the Roman Empire. is the editor-in-chief of The Public Medievalist, a “volunteer, scholar-run online magazine devoted to the idea that the Middle Ages matter to people today,” and the author of The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination: Memory, Film and Medievalism. The army of expensive sellswords arrayed against her are immolated, and the civilian population soon follows. She then circles the city from the air, catching dozens of weapon emplacements unaware before blasting the city’s defenses - and its gates - to rubble.
Moments after launching into the air on her dragon, Daenerys lays waste to the Iron Fleet, utterly destroying Euron Greyjoy’s formidable warships and their payload of deadly ballistas. In last Sunday’s penultimate episode, “The Bells,” the siege of King’s Landing quickly flashes over into a massacre. The biggest questions going into Game of Thrones’ series finale
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