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EspañolTERRY JONES' MEDIEVAL LIVES
'Terry Jones' Medieval Lives' is a series of documentaries written and hosted by ex-Python Terry Jones and originally aired by the BBC. Each half-hour episode examines a particular Medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality.
Being a comedian as well as a historian, Terry Jones takes an "established belief," turns that around and presents proof for his assertion.
In the episode on Kings, he says, "History isn't necessarily what happened. It's often what people want us to think happened.", with the following examples:
★ Richard the Lionheart was actually a bad king, who only saw England (which he hated) as a means to finance his warmongery, whereas Richard III did a lot of good for England. Modern perceptions of these kings are reversed because chroniclers of the time were commissioned to write what was politically most convenient.
★ Louis was (acclaimed as) a king of England yet appears in no history books as such (see First Baron's War).
Terry Jones explains his main reason for making this series in the article The Middle Ages of reason in ''The Observer''.
The eight episodes were as follows:
★ The Peasant
★ The Monk
★ The Damsel
★ The Minstrel
★ The Knight
★ The Philosopher (Alchemist)
★ The Outlaw
★ The King
After its initial run on the BBC, the series was shown on the History Channel. Terry Jones also made two other historic programmes for the BBC, The Story of One, which charted the history of number systems, and Terry Jones' Barbarians, which was a four-part series that, in a similar way to Medieval Lives, featured different peoples regarded by the Romans as uncivilised; Celts, Germans, the East (the Greeks and Persians) and the End of the World (Vandals, Goths and Huns).
★ The Story of One
★ Terry Jones' Barbarians
★ Monty Python and the Holy Grail
| Contents |
| Alternate takes on History |
| Episode List |
| After 'Medieval Lives' |
| See Also |
Alternate takes on History
Being a comedian as well as a historian, Terry Jones takes an "established belief," turns that around and presents proof for his assertion.
In the episode on Kings, he says, "History isn't necessarily what happened. It's often what people want us to think happened.", with the following examples:
★ Richard the Lionheart was actually a bad king, who only saw England (which he hated) as a means to finance his warmongery, whereas Richard III did a lot of good for England. Modern perceptions of these kings are reversed because chroniclers of the time were commissioned to write what was politically most convenient.
★ Louis was (acclaimed as) a king of England yet appears in no history books as such (see First Baron's War).
Terry Jones explains his main reason for making this series in the article The Middle Ages of reason in ''The Observer''.
Episode List
The eight episodes were as follows:
★ The Peasant
★ The Monk
★ The Damsel
★ The Minstrel
★ The Knight
★ The Philosopher (Alchemist)
★ The Outlaw
★ The King
After 'Medieval Lives'
After its initial run on the BBC, the series was shown on the History Channel. Terry Jones also made two other historic programmes for the BBC, The Story of One, which charted the history of number systems, and Terry Jones' Barbarians, which was a four-part series that, in a similar way to Medieval Lives, featured different peoples regarded by the Romans as uncivilised; Celts, Germans, the East (the Greeks and Persians) and the End of the World (Vandals, Goths and Huns).
See Also
★ The Story of One
★ Terry Jones' Barbarians
★ Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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