A Quibble

[poliphilo]

I'm quite liking Robert Bartlett's series on the Normans, but it does annoy me how he- or his director- is muddying the water with anachronism. William I was religious- cue pictures of a late medieval madonna. The harrying of the north was horrific- I know what, we'll shoot a sequence in a Victorian churchyard. William was crowned in Westminster Abbey- just look how pretty that Renaissance choir loft is. And ooh- look- stained glass- and bugger the fact that it hasn't been invented yet.  If the object of the exercise is to give us some idea not only of Norman politics but also of Norman culture then this continual pointing of the camera at unNorman things is downright misleading.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Anglo-Saxon glass! In situ! Wow!

Perhaps I can catch it on the BBC i-player

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

They repeated it last night, I think. It must be On Demand by now, which means it must be on i-player...