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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a 2004 television documentary series produced for the BBC.Written and hosted by Terry Jones, each half-hour episode examines a particular medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality.
Mrs. Gert Bogmelon (voiced by Lisa Kaplan) is a witch-like shopkeeper who loves money and loves to rip off her customers. She can be cowed by Fang and other aggressive people but takes advantage of meek people like Dave. She sells evil weasels, mystical swords, and other plot-related paraphernalia, such as used T-shirts for sporting events.
The concept of Merry England originated in the Middle Ages, when Henry of Huntingdon around 1150 first coined the phrase Anglia plena jocis. [2] His theme was taken up in the following century by the encyclopedist Bartholomeus Anglicus, who claimed that "England is full of mirth and of game, and men oft-times able to mirth and game".
In the earliest days of liturgical drama, plays were performed inside the church with limited scenery and the focus of the audience on the action. [7] Mansions were used to indicate location but much of the performance took place on the platea, the open space in front of the scenic structure, with the actors moving from mansion to mansion only when strictly necessary.
The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.
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In 1380, after the death of his father Charles V of France, the 12-year-old Charles VI was crowned king, beginning his minority with his four uncles acting as regents. [note 2] [4] Within two years, one of his uncles, Philip of Burgundy, described by historian Robert Knecht as "one of the most powerful princes in Europe", [5] became sole regent to the young king after Louis of Anjou pillaged ...
William Hogarth's engraving "Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington" (illustration to Samuel Butler's Hudibras) [1]. Charivari (/ ˌ ʃ ɪ v ə ˈ r iː, ˈ ʃ ɪ v ə r iː /, UK also / ˌ ʃ ɑːr ɪ ˈ v ɑːr i /, US also / ʃ ə ˌ r ɪ v ə ˈ r iː /, [2] [3] alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called a skimmington) was a European and North American folk custom designed to ...