As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Inside the Medieval Mind, I should also mention that there’s a major BBC series running at the moment about the Normans in England. Again it is written and narrated by Professor Robert Bartlett. I haven’t seen any of them yet, but I am sure it is worth seeing. [...]

I caught the third episode of the BBC series Inside the Medieval Mind, presented and written by Professor Robert Bartlett. The episode I watched was on Belief. I thought Bartlett did a great job of not just recounting religious beliefs, but instead delved into beliefs around life and death and how the two were linked [...]