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01-27-2010, 09:48 AM
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a 2004 Emmy award nominated television documentary series produced for the BBC. Written and hosted by Terry Jones, 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, count of Artois (later king of France), was acclaimed as king of England yet appears in no history books as such (see First Baron's War).
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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, count of Artois (later king of France), was acclaimed as king of England yet appears in no history books as such (see First Baron's War).
2606384069727787131
-8124627923232692305
-503389581888160495
8547615388145031854
2065990347248188542
8022348876767794459
672133535391949781
-841530711586505025