Talk:Middle Ages in film

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[edit] Select films

This list was initially created from here (section B&C) which was based in part on input from an informal poll of medievalists on a popular medieval mailing list. --Stbalbach 03:17, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have heard that the consensus here (at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Toronto) is that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the most accurate movie about the Middle Ages ever made :) Adam Bishop 17:52, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

ha.. I'd like to see Lost in La Mancha sometime, documentary about Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) and his attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a movie adaptation of the novel Don Quixote, which is essentially the original Middle Ages "fumbling knights" comedy. --Stbalbach 21:38, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think that King Arthur, Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and A Knight's Tale are all well known enough to also merit inclusion in this list. Sincerely, --164.107.92.120 22:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not so much "known well enough" that the list was created. See link mentioned above. -- Stbalbach 14:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello! "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" films; the Lon Chaney and Charles Laughton versions- I would think they merit inclusion. Also, re: "Man for All Seasons"- the 16th century is well past the "middle ages".

Good list there, sundry brains. May I suggest the Michael Palin film Jabberwocky, which like Monty Python and the Holy Grail focussed on the more squalid side of the period. 60.242.50.195 21:12, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Five or Six centuries

I arrived at 6 centuries based on:

1) 1500 (or, Dec. 31 1499) is the commonly accepted date for the end of the Middle Ages .. it is not meant to be an exact date, few two people will agree on an exact event, but it is a general date that you will find in course outlines and textbooks. 500-1500 as the middle ages. 2) Thus 1400s is the middle ages. 3) Counting forward 1500s, 1600's, 1700s, 1800s, 1900's, 2000's = 6 centuries. 4) The reason "2000's" is counted as a "century" is the same reason that I am 39 years old (not 38 years and 5 months). It is normal convention.

To avoid confusion I'll change it to "over five centuries".

--Stbalbach 04:24, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. That sounds fine.

--Museslave