Here at the frontier, the leaves fall like rain. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are still two cups at my table.


Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

~ Wu-men ~


Sunday, September 25, 2011

Medieval Lives

Below is an excerpt. The whole article, including links to all the episodes may be found here.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a BBC documentary series presented by Terry Jones, looking at the Medieval world with the intent of finding out what it was really like. The series consists of eight episodes, each of which examines a particular Medieval personality: the peasant, the monk, the damsel, the minstrel, the knight, the philosopher, the outlaw and the king. The series reveals that what most people believe life was like in the Middle Ages is totally wrong. For example, the medieval knight were far more interested in the fine arts of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry.

4 comments:

Kathy Garolsky said...

Nice post you got here.Thank you for sharing this wonderful info..

Rick Matz said...

Thanks for visiting.

tao1776 said...

Damn! Eat this shit up I do! Thanks Rick!

Rick Matz said...

HAHA! I'm glad you like it!