Featuring the Black Death, Robin Hood, Anne Boleyn, James I of Scotland, Edward I's Welsh Wars, JFK's assassination and more Post Malone than you would expect from a medieval history newsletter...
Re: why films and tv series about the Middle Ages are so 'dark'...? The answer... the Victorians. They stripped away, sometimes literally, the almost offensive level of colour and vibrancy in order to bring across their version of the Middle Ages. That is my take and I am sticking to it.
Re: why films and tv series about the Middle Ages are so 'dark'...? The answer... the Victorians. They stripped away, sometimes literally, the almost offensive level of colour and vibrancy in order to bring across their version of the Middle Ages. That is my take and I am sticking to it.
Fingers crossed for Warwick!
As always, very illuminating! Thank you very much for your time and sharing your knowledge!
Pyromania you say, The Anarchist Cookbook….interesting. 🤔 Makes sense.