{"id":1222,"date":"2004-01-01T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2019-01-17T23:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:49:17","slug":"magical-medieval-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/magical-medieval-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Medieval Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWhy are the middle-ages completely fuck-upped?<\/i><\/div>\n
\n

Maybe I am a bit preoccupied with the middle-ages through my hobby as
\namateur-historian (reenactment, living-history, or a bit high-flying:
\nexperimental archaeology), but still I think I have a broad overview
\non how things in later epoques should look, as well.<\/p>\n

The question thus is this: Why do people, particularly people
\nproducing movies, have good judgement about what is historically
\ncorrect and what not as long as it doesn’t come to the
\nmiddle-ages<\/b>?<\/p>\n

There are loads of good movies out there playing in the 19th, 18th,
\n17th and sometimes even the 16th century, in which the regisseurs
\ngot the whole scenery together perfectly. Everything fits, people
\nwear the historically correct shoes, have the correct weapons,
\nthe correct things of daily use, and so on. As far as I can tell,
\nthat is. Maybe they’re terribly wrong too, but I really think
\nwith my knowledge I can tell that they’re mostly correct. No really
\nbig mishaps. No Shoes from the 19th century in movies of the 17th.<\/p>\n

So why the hell does it happen that all those things appear in
\nmovies which play in the middle ages? It would be understandable
\nif the 13th and the 15th century get mixed up; it would be even
\nunderstandable if the 10th and the 15th century would get mixed
\nup. But how can people loose obviously everything they know about
\nhistory (plus even the ability to do some days research or ask
\nsomebody who knows) when it comes to the middle-ages?<\/p>\n

Instead we get a complete made-up fantasy-world, where everything
\napart from the date (like 1326) and some well-known facts (england at
\nwar with france) is complete, utter bogus. In contrast to the movies
\npeople didn’t wear riding boots from the 19th century in the middle-ages.
\nPeople didn’t risk their houses by using torches indoors. People also
\ndidn’t wear “Jute”-rags. Neither did they wear leather, apart from
\naprons. People also had houses which walls were as tightly made as
\npossible, and not something where you could look through. Knights
\ndid take off their armour when not expecting a battle. And their
\ngloves when tending the wounded.<\/p>\n

And the list goes on and on. Just about every movie with a medieval
\nsetting (and I don’t even mean the a bit more fantasy-ones like those
\nking arthur-themes) makes itself guilty of historical inaccuracies
\nin the magnitude of being 500 to 1000 years off. And that might be
\nwell 1000 years into the future if you take the haircuts. Do you
\nreally think william the conqueror had the same haircut as a bank-clerk
\nin the year 2000? And funny enough, in movies playing in, say 1750, you
\ndon’t see these, of course.<\/p>\n

The question is now, where does it come from. Do all the people doing
\nmedieval-themed movies get their picture of the middle-ages from some
\nother bad medieval-themed movie?<\/p>\n

I really don’t know. This is so weird.<\/p>\n

Peter Keel,<\/p>\n

2004<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why are the middle-ages completely fuck-upped? Maybe I am a bit preoccupied with the middle-ages through my hobby as amateur-historian (reenactment, living-history, or a bit high-flying: experimental archaeology), but still I think I have a broad overview on how things in later epoques should look, as well. The question thus is this: Why do people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmkritik","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}