Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

The Peasant

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

The Monk

The Medieval monk was dedicated to God, and lived a life of prayer, hard work and poverty. But are the things we think w

The Damsel

The Medieval damsel is nowadays seen as a beautiful, but helpless woman, forever in need of a knight in shining armor to

The Minstrel

We usually see the minstrel as a jolly and free man, who was popular with the kings and with the ladies. But was it real

The Knight

Terry begins by explaining that the common perception of the knight may in fact be historically inaccurate. William the

The Philosopher

Terry Jones examination of Philosophers, their mythic pursuit of a "stone", alchemy and medicine in the Medieval world.

The Outlaw

Outlaws, men like Robin Hood, dressed in tights and little short tunics, living in the forest and fearlessly standing up

The King

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

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