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Main => The Library => Topic started by: scott2978 on 2014-10-29, 09:40:09
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A fun documentary on the lifestyle of the common peasant in medieval England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Z1eb4TRqs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Z1eb4TRqs)
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I won't say their lives sucked but....
Thanks for sharing.
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I love the Monty Python gang, including Terry Jones (Sir Bedivere and many other characters in the Holy Grail), the host of 'Medieval Lives', but some of the Medieval Lives: The Knight episode is a bit one-sided. He presents an interesting argument that knights were nothing but self-interested, fame-seeking, sex-crazed warmongers. Like everything, the truth is usually somewhere between the two extreme points of view :)
Once he moves past that it gets a lot better.
He does spend a lot of time on the Marshal though :)
Medieval Lives: The Knight 5 / 9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nol6S8W69UI#ws)
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Good series. :)
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funny series. And good
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Good series indeed. I have the whole thing on DVD and his companion book. But yes, like anything dealing with the subject, there are bound to be some biases. Entertaining nonetheless. :)
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I love the Monty Python gang, including Terry Jones (Sir Bedivere and many other characters in the Holy Grail), the host of 'Medieval Lives', but some of the Medieval Lives: The Knight episode is a bit one-sided. He presents an interesting argument that knights were nothing but self-interested, fame-seeking, sex-crazed warmongers. Like everything, the truth is usually somewhere between the two extreme points of view :)
Once he moves past that it gets a lot better.
He does spend a lot of time on the Marshal though :)
Medieval Lives: The Knight 5 / 9 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nol6S8W69UI#ws)
Your mentioning Monty Python brought to mind a comment I got from a young lady who saw me in partial harness at a company halloween party; she said she knew what I was thanks to MP and the HG and proceeded to give me a little bit of dialog to prove it. I thought it was cute so then of course we started talking about the usual- swords, armor, collecting, LARPing, re-enacting. Its nice when you can connect w/someone you thought of as strictly of the mundanes. Inadvertently won the costume contest- I say inadvertently because I didn't enter it, a bunch of people wrote me in. Was good for a week's parking in executive row (right by the building's entrance, covered pkg lot).