In ‘Inside the Medieval Mind’ one of the world’s greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world.
In this series he opens up the often surprising discontinuities and similarities between the medieval age and our own as he remarks:
“In many ways these were people very much like us, in terms of family, ambitions for children and the world of emotions. On the other hand, they inhabited a very different world, in which it was believed the dead visited the living, and where somewhere there lived a race of people with the heads of dogs.”
The series comprises four one hour programmes, each on a different aspect of medieval thinking: Belief; Sex; Power; Knowledge. During the series he visits numerous medieval locations, from Westminster Abbey to Pluscarden Abbey near Inverness, with wide use of readings from original medieval sources.
Since the Renaissance we have wanted to understand the world so that we can control it and make it work to our advantage. Professor Bartlett argues that the medieval world was not to be mastered, so much as contemplated.
Inside The Medieval Mind in more depth:
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In ‘Inside the Medieval Mind’ one of the world’s greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval... Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - About the series
OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - Belief
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The world of religion, the supernatural, the cult of the saints and the Crusades, read more in Belief. Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - Belief
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Explore the way medieval eyes saw the world – a place of mystery, enchantment, culminating in birth of the modern world and discovery of America... Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - Knowledge
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The brutal framework of the medieval class system is laid bare, in the programme Power Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - Power
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Unearth remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women in the medieval world in Sex. Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Medieval Mind - Sex
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Inside the Medieval Mind - locations
This is a plea really - wouldn't it be nice when you get fantastic programmes like Inside the Medieval Mind, if programme makers put a subtitle to show us where the exterior shots were taken? some of us might like to go there, so it would be great if we knew where to go! Yes I am going to sign up for a poster,even though I don't really want one - I just want the name of the place on screen briefly - 2 seconds would do. So frustrating!
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i want to say something very important i think there are many historical mistakes in this series for example
the first mechancal clock was made by muslims in bagdad & the first one who discovered america wasnt cristopher columbus but also arabs & the first one who analysed the light & established the optics & also remove all the old myses was AL Hazan Ibn Al haisam not bacon your series must be subjective & to admit the favor of muslims for all the modern technology that we have to day & at the end i know that BBC is the most subjective channel & i am sure that you will take my comments into your consideration in the next series best regards & i hope you all the luck & success