First Aired: April 17th, 2008
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Air Time: Thursday, 09:00 PM
Network: BBC Four
Summary: In ‘Inside the Medieval Mind’ one of the world’s greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world.
In this series he opens up the often surprising discontinuities and similarities between the medieval age and our own as he remarks -
“In many ways these were people very much like us, in terms of family, ambitions for children and the world of emotions. On the other hand, they inhabited a very different world, in which it was believed the dead visited the living, and where somewhere there lived a race of people with the heads of dogs.”
The series comprises four one hour programmes, each on a different aspect of medieval thinking - Belief; Sex; Power; Knowledge. During the series he visits numerous medieval locations, from Westminster Abbey to Pluscarden Abbey near Inverness, with wide use of readings from original medieval sources.
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# of Episodes: 4
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Season 1 - Episode 4: Power
Air Date: May 8th, 2008
Summary: In Power, Professor Robert Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was as part of the natural order, the life of serfs little better than those of animals, the knight’s code of chivalry more one of caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.
There were three classes, or estates - those who pray (the clergy), those who fight (the aristocratic warrior class of knights) and those who work (everybody else – in practice, usually serfs on a knight’s estate).
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