TERRY JONES: MEDIEVAL LIVES

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, pious monks... Nonsense. The Middle Ages were far more entertaining than that!; ; Legendary Monty Python star & medieval scholar, Terry Jones, has been leafing through the history books to find out what the medieval world was really like. What he discovered was a treasure trove of extraordinary stories and characters that challenges those tired traditional stereotypes.; ; With the help of animated medieval paintings, these wonderful tales bring the Middle Ages vividly to life in all its corruption, violence & greed, courage, enterprise, and learning. Anyone who enjoys Chaucer or Rabelais will be familar wit the earthy humor of the time, but few people know about the dark side of chivalry or that women and serfs were not downtrodden creatures at all. Each episode explores the role and function of a different medieval archetype. All of these stories are absolutely true and full of amazing facts.
• Cast: Terry Jones, Peter Barber, Dr. Faye Getz, Nigel Miller
• Director: Nigel Miller
• Runtime: 3:51
• Company: 2 Entertain
• Media Format: movie