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Watch all the talks from BBC History Magazine's Medieval Festival

May 23, 2020 No comments

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Watch the Medieval Life and Death Festival full programme of talks

This week the BBC History Magazine Live Medieval Life and Death Festival took place online and just in case you missed it, you can still watch all the talks at your own leisure over on our website. Every day we released a new pre-recorded talk from one of five leading medieval scholars plus a panel discussion answering your questions. Each talk is about one hour long, and we are ranging far and wide over medieval history. Scroll down to view videos from each day.

Medieval crime and violence,
with Dr Hannah Skoda

The Middle Ages are often stereotyped as brutal and gruesomely violent. Certainly, levels of violence – ranging from domestic to military – were terrifyingly high. However this talk reveals the complexity and sophistication of medieval responses to violence, from admiration to horror and fear. Hannah Skoda shows us societies suffused with, but troubled by, bloodshed.

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Medieval food,
with Professor Chris Woolgar

Medieval food is a window onto medieval lives: we see the passions of the elite, the sharp, acidic sauces and spiced foods which dominated Western cuisine by 1100 AD, while the peasantry had overwhelmingly a cereal diet – although they were ambitious for the food of their betters, especially after the Black Death. Chris Woolgar reveals what people ate, and when, however, were shaped by religion and questions of morality.

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Medieval faith and religion,
with Dr Emma Wells

Medieval faith was forged on an unprecedented scale, among the fires of conflict and creativity. As the most powerful institution, the Church influenced virtually every aspect of life, from birth to death. Emma Wells explores medieval religion's dynamic character and its prodigious cast of characters, from Bede to the architect of religious transformation, Henry VIII. Come on a journey that shaped our world.

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Medieval medicine,
with Dr Elma Brenner

What happened when you fell ill in the Middle Ages, and how did people stay healthy? This talk explores the health issues that faced medieval people, from plague to chronic diseases like leprosy. Elma Brenner considers how medical treatments, therapies and hospitals assisted the sick, and how religion was crucial to ideas about illness.

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Medieval love and marriage,
with Dr Sally Dixon-Smith

Although we often think of monks and nuns when we picture 'medieval', most people did get married. Sally Dixon-Smith charts how it was incredibly easy to get married – so easy, in fact, that people might not be sure if they were really wed, might marry accidentally, or indeed 'accidentally on purpose'.

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Panel Discussion

Our leading historians from the week take part in a panel discussion answering questions submitted throughout by our audiences.

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