Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

8.1 / 10
2004
1 season
9 episodes
Documentary

Terry Jones hosts "Terry Jones' Medieval Lives", a series that delves into the lives of different medieval occupations, including kings, knights, and minstrels.

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  • The Peasant

    1.The Peasant

    09-02-200430m

    Terry Jones investigates the feudal system and the Peasants' Revolt, and discovers the truth about the Medieval Peasant in the process.

  • The Monk

    2.The Monk

    16-02-200430m

    The Medieval monk was dedicated to God, and lived a life of prayer, hard work and poverty. But are the things we think we know, really true? Terry Jones travels around Europe in an...

  • The Damsel

    3.The Damsel

    23-02-200430m

    The Medieval damsel is nowadays seen as a beautiful, but helpless woman, forever in need of a knight in shining armor to rescue her. But were damsels really such passive females, o...

  • The Minstrel

    4.The Minstrel

    01-03-200430m

    We usually see the minstrel as a jolly and free man, who was popular with the kings and with the ladies. But was it really like that? Terry Jones investigates what we think we know...

  • The Knight

    5.The Knight

    08-03-200430m

    Terry begins by explaining that the common perception of the knight may in fact be historically inaccurate. William the Bastard (later known as William the Conqueror) conquered Eng...

  • The Philosopher

    6.The Philosopher

    15-03-200430m

    Terry Jones examination of Philosophers, their mythic pursuit of a "stone", alchemy and medicine in the Medieval world. Dispelling myths on the fanciful ideas of belief in a flat e...

  • The Outlaw

    7.The Outlaw

    22-03-200430m

    Outlaws, men like Robin Hood, dressed in tights and little short tunics, living in the forest and fearlessly standing up for justice for the common man. But did a Medieval outlaw l...

  • The King

    8.The King

    29-03-200430m

    We think we know who the kings of the Medieval world were. But do we really know them? Terry Jones tries to find out the truth about the powerful men of the age.

  • Ep 9

    9.Gladiators: The Brutal Truth

    TBA30m

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