The Middle Ages and the Movies

Eight Key Films

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Robert Bartlett

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In The Middle Ages and the Movies, eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and nationalism in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, to Fritz Lang’s silent epic Siegfried, the art-house classic The Seventh Seal, and the epic historical drama El Cid. Bartlett examines the historical accuracy of these films, as well as other salient aspects — how was Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose translated from page to screen? Why is Monty Python and the Holy Grail funny? And how was Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky shaped by the Stalinist tyranny under which it was filmed?

Author Biography:

Robert Bartlett is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His many books include the Wolfson Prize-winning The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350 (1994), and he has written and presented three television series for the BBC, ‘Inside the Medieval Mind’, ‘The Normans’ and ‘The Plantagenets’.

Release date Australia

May 16th, 2022

Author

Robert Bartlett

Pages

256

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

48 illustrations

ISBN-13

9781789145526

Product ID

35354179

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