TV SERIES: Terry Jones' (Monty Python) Medieval Lives

[Ryan Goble]

If you're teaching the Middle Ages you'd be crazy to not use Terry Jones' (Monty Python)
Medieval Lives. Is now available in its entirety via the BBC on YouTube and available as a DVD set at Amazon. Medieval Lives is an awesome series like The Barbarians as Jones always questions established historical narratives (think a funnier and British Howard Zinn).

Because he uses a Chaucerian approach to the time period you can easily differentiate viewing by allowing students to choose a social role to explore independently that they can then share with the whole group.

Here is a breakdown of the episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=s-Gqsjg9y-8&s=1

 

[Katherine Bolman, PhD]

Great idea and Ryan would you consider changing so you are looking at me instead of off the the heavens.

[Ryan Goble]

KB, help me understand ? Billy Joel said that we "don't go changin'!'"