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Last broadcast on Tue, 19 May 2009, 20:00 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Leading authority on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett, presents a series which examines the way we thought during medieval times. He lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system, where inequality was part of the natural order, the life of serfs little better than those of animals and the knight's code of chivalry more one of caste solidarity than morality. Yet a social revolution would transform relations between those with absolute power and those with none.
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- Presenter
- Robert Bartlett
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