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Europe in the Middle Ages

Europe in the Middle Ages

Europe in the Middle Ages

2004 1 Seasons 4 Episodes ⭐ 6.7

Why were the Middle Ages dark? Isn't it true that this epoch conjures up ominous images of superstition and witch-hunting? Burning pyres and plague doctors hurrying strangely muffled along dark alley-ways in their fight against the Black Death, such are the generally accepted associations we have with this "dark" era. The Middle Ages were in the true sense of the word dark.

Why were the Middle Ages dark? Isn't it true that this epoch conjures up ominous images of superstition and witch-hunting? Burning pyres and plague doctors hurrying strangely muffled along dark alley-ways in their fight against the Black Death, such are the generally accepted associations we have with this "dark" era. The Middle Ages were in the true sense of the word dark.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Knights and Tournaments

Picturesque castles, noble knights, minnesingers and troubadours - these romantic images fire our imagination in the gen

EP 2

Monks and Heretics

As centres of missionary activity and science, monasteries made an important contribution to progress. Here, not only th

EP 3

Peasants and Nobles

Most of the population in the Middle Ages lived on the land - a silent, suffering majority, who as serfs had to do socca

EP 4

Cities and Cathedrals

Historians considered for a long time the picturesque maze of alleyways in mediaeval towns to be construction planning g

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