Life as a medieval peasant

[scott2978]

A fun documentary on the lifestyle of the common peasant in medieval England. 

[Sir William]

I won't say their lives sucked but....

Thanks for sharing.

[Ian]

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

[Thorsteinn]

Good series.

[Sir Nate]

funny series. And good

[Sir Douglas]

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.

[Sir William]

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

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).