Medieval Life 1: Two Families
30 mins, 2002 A unique, comic and ultimately tragic insight into how two different families lived in medieval times. On the eve of the outbreak of the Black Death, the local lord of the manor shows us around the manor house. We learn about their way of life, ambitions and views on society. At the… Read more »
Medieval Life 2: The Black Death
32 mins, 2002 This film is a gripping and grizzly evocation of the devastation wrought by what was probably Britain’s worst ever disaster: the Black Death of 1348. The film explains the different kinds of plague, bubonic and pneumonic, and covers in graphic terms the terrible suffering which it brought to its victims.Powerful reconstruction brings… Read more »
Medieval Life 3: Religion, Medicine and Women
30 mins, 2002 An exploration of three key aspects of medieval life. Villagers describe a world of startling strangeness to modern minds. 1. RELIGION: The church, and its priests, were of a kind we would not recognise today. It had huge power over peoples’ lives. Before the world of science and rationalism, the threat of… Read more »