First Knight
22Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast, Episode 2
Sarah ifft Decker and Oliver Brady discuss the 1995 film First Knight, which is based on Arthurian Legend. The movie stars stars Sean Connery as King Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere. Its a movie that features a lot of smoldering looks and also a lot of men being complete tools.
Content Warning: They also discuss consent "laws" in the Middle Ages and it gets quite intense.
Media-eval is a podcast where medieval historian Sarah ifft Decker talks about how movies, tv shows, and books depict the Middle Ages in historical fiction and medieval-inspired fantasy. What did they get right? What did they get wrong? And what do they tell us about how modern people think about the medieval past?
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