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Inside the Medieval Mind

Episode 4: Power

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Professor Robert Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system, where inequality was part of the natural order, the life of serfs little better than those of animals and the knight's code of chivalry more one of caste solidarity than morality. Yet a social revolution would transform relations between those with absolute power and those with none. Show less

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