Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death poster

Basic Info

First Air: October 09, 2013

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: A Good Death

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2013-10-23

In the medieval world, death was always close at hand, for young and old, rich and poor alike. But rather than seeing death as an end, people thought of it as a doorway to everlasting life, and much of their time and effort in this life was spent getting ready for the next.

Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

2013 1 seasons 3 episodes

Overview

Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage and death. In doing so she reveals how people in the medieval world thought and what they believed in. For the people of the Middle Ages the teachings of the Catholic Church shaped thoughts and beliefs across the whole of Western Europe. But by the end of the Middle Ages the Church would find itself in the grip of momentous change and the way of medieval birth, marriage and death would never be quite the same again.