History isn't necessarily what happened. It's often what people want us to think happened. Terry Jones.
When it comes to history and medieval history most people have two kinds of views - love or hate. We tend to classify the middle ages as the age of ignorance and tend to believe our age is superior. Viewing the past from the present can be coloured by our assumptions of our own age. we tend to look at the part in simple good bad dichotomies. We have come to believe that the age we live in is the epitome of progress and rationality and the past was an ignorant era.
Terry Jones challenges this idea we have of the middle ages. He presents a social political picture of why things were a certain way and how ideas, calamities, economics and even disease shaped an era.
The series consists of 8 episodes (30 minutes each)
The eight episodes are:
The Peasant
The Monk
The Damsel
The Minstrel
The Knight
The Philosopher (Alchemist)
The Outlaw
The King
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