Rent Medieval Dead: Series 1 (2013)
3.7 of 5 from 45 ratings
4h 42min
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- Synopsis:
If the medieval dead could speak, what would they tell us? They would recount extraordinary tales of pagan rituals, plague, and the cruel land in which ordinary folk struggled just to stay alive. Now, centuries after they were buried, the medieval dead are about to rise from their graves...This series reveals true stories of medieval life by examining the skeletal remains that lie buried below the earth's surface. Combining atmospheric dramatic reconstructions of gripping stories with archaeological science, Medieval Dead takes viewers deeper into the medieval world than ever before.
Last Stand at VisbyMidsummer 1361. In Gotland, Sweden King Valdemar and his Danish army attack the walled town of Visby. While the town's rich merchants look on, a hastily recruited army of feudal peasants is quite literally cut to pieces by the Danes right outside the main gates.
The Mysterious Woman of Tadcaster
In 2009 excavations atTadcaster Castle in Yorkshire recovered a series of medieval graves - among which one stood out. It contained what appeared to be the body of a woman, much taller and more robust than the average female for any period...
The Defenders of Masterby
The picturesque village of Masterby in Sweden hides a terrible secret. If the mass graves at Visby are marked by a single cross, what lies beneath the eerie single cross that stands there?
Richard III's Lost Chapel
Ground-breaking research and excavations at Towton, the scene of the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil, reveal a hitherto unknown chapel built by Richard III, arguably England's most notorious king.
Disease and Pestilence
Illness and disease was a fact of life in medieval times. Hygiene and sanitation was practically non-existent, living conditions for the poor were generally dreadful. Life expectancy was short and a death hastened by some terrible infection or sickness was almost inevitable.
Agincourt: The Hidden Dead
It was one of English history's most celebrated victories. In the year 1415, an English army, outnumbered and weakened by illness somehow defeated a much larger French army which had the flower of the country's nobility at its head. Perhaps 7000 French noblemen fell that day and were buried in mass graves.- Actors:
- Jeremy Freeston, Tim Sutherland, Helen Goodchild, Simon Richardson, Karen Watts, Malin Holst, Anne Curry, Sofia Hoas, Robert Eyre, Maria Lingstrom, Anthony Masington, Thomas Neijman, Petter Akeson, Bethany Givvons-Collinge, Carl Wharton
- Directors:
- Jeremy Freeston
- Producers:
- Jeremy Freeston
- Writers:
- Jeremy Freeston
- Studio:
- Luxin
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries
