Dear All,

Just to let you know that 'the one who wrote a book on Chaucer' is at
the moment doing a series debunking historical 'truths' about the Middle
Ages (e.g. 'they believed the world was flat', 'women weren't allowed to
do anything', 'the peasants had a dreadful time').

There are some very delightful animations of medieval illustrations,
but, sadly, no footnotes and the balance of documents and material
culture is about where one would expect it from a man who wrote a book
on Chaucer.

Yours,

Pat
(the footnote I really want is the one that gives the reference to the
nugget that today people in the west consume about 5% of calories as
alcohol, but in the middle ages they consumed about 20%).

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>Yeah, one of the guys was a regular on blackadder; that's one of the
>differences with (some) british TV, I think: even the celebrities see=
>m to
>know a lot - all the monty python guys studied at cambridge, and one =
>of them
>wrote a book on chaucer...
>I think their shooting schedules are incredibly tight, too; take over
>existing sites for a weekend or something, so they can do their littl=
>e bit,
>and either come up with an answer or not...
>I've never actually seen it, tho... Most of the time I lived in engla=
>nd I
>didn't have telly, and we couldn't get the BBC in our part of germany=
> (just
>C-NBC, which wasn't really a fair trade!)
>
>
>geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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Pat Reynolds
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   "It might look a bit messy now,
                    but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)