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Do you know of any sources I can read for stories of Reynard?

Ah so that’s why Robin Hood was a Fox!

I have watched this film every Boxing Day since 1980. At first glance, my man, I thought you were Andrew Howard! I once heard an interview with the playwright, James Goldman, in which he said the story is dedicated to every family who had someone who didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas! “Frankly, Philip-it’s a tangle.”

Henry would never have divorced Eleanor. If he had, he would've lost the Aquitaine as it belonged to her while she lived. They "loaned" it to Richard to practice ruling on. The threat to divorce was just inter-familial political maneuvering.

This is one of my very favorite films, and I absolutely think this is a Christmas movie.

I liked the character of Geoffrey, he was so cynical, but somehow John Castle makes you like him besides that he is the best looking one, other than Timothy Dalton.

One of my favorite movies, and yes it is a Christmas movie, this one along with "II's a Wonderful Christmas", are my favorite Christmas movies, very different, this one not as uplifting as "It's a wonderful life", but it is great the acting is off the wall, the dialogue quick and snappy. I live Henry's comment "There is no use asking if the air is any good, when there is nothing else to breathe".

thanks really enjoyed your summary :)

Nice video! Do you have any recommended anthologies or translations if I wanted to read the Reynard stories?

Actually, they were on to something with the balance idea. Our bodies have a Ph balance that should be maintained.

Bellissimo racconto! Grazie

Excellent, thank you.

Kate Hepburn was a descendant of Elinor Of Aquitaine.

​This movie and Thomas Becket are my most favorite movies of a lifetime. I loved listening to you talking about it. I am a foreigner and appreciated your very eloquent and clear presentation, and knowledge of the medieval history of King Henry II. Greetings to you from Budapest.

ik im commenting this on a 3 year old vid, but do you have any recommendations for someone trying to learn as much as possible about Reynard The Fox? :D

I watch it every Christmas - have since....oh 2006 or 7

My second favorite film. I watch this every yuletide, usually between Christmas and the new year. A beautiful piece of the middle ages brought to life w/a cast beyond compare! 1968 was definitely a wonderful year for motion pictures, and this film tops the list in my olde book! The music too, how gorgeous can it get? John Barry's score would have been lovely even for a live-action version of 'Sleeping Beauty'. Here's a toast to you for bringing us this fine review, and might I say you would have looked perfect for a role yourself in this eternal classic! 🦁❄️🎄🍻

For the fun I would say that after his experiment on his dog , Pavlov also ended up with a dog head

Even though I recently found your channel, I'm very much enjoying it. 👍

This is exactly the kind of info I've been looking for.

Oh yeah just a thought. How does King Lear fit in as a reference in 1175ish ???

Superb movie!!!

Eleanor is not only wearing black, but Marshall barely gets out "Your Majesty", before she says, quietly: "There's to be a Christmas court." Though bricked in, she knows Henry well enough to understand what's happening. Her character note.

Wonderful! So little to discover online regarding Christmastide. Thankful for your offering.

If only the audio was just a tiny bit better. Other than that this is fantastic.

Richard preferred French.

This story and book was inspired by ancient indian book panchatantra.

Film journalist Trevor Wilsmer thought this the perfect Christmas movie: Nobody gets what they want, and everyone is trying to kill each other.

Hey my name is reynard

I feel like the Greeks didn’t have a word for blue… or really butt ugly people. The ocean is wine colored and atrocious assface monsters were dog faced

I really liked this🤘⚡️

My favourite film. I watched it again a few days ago. Everything about 'The Lion In Winter' is top notch.......the actors (particularly O'Toole and Hepburn), the dialogue, the story-line, the photography, the music score by the very talented John Barry.........a truly brilliant film.

This masterpiece and Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’ are my favorite Christmas movies. And Alistair Sim’s film of Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Carol.

The injection of homosexual themes into this movie seemed strained to me. The politics of 1968 were not the politics of 1183.

Oh, hi.

Very good research and especially, very good perspective. By looking at women, in some cases, like this one, it really clarifies some of the events that otherwise remain clouded. I wonder what the negotiations were, what was negotiated and the contract that made the marriage between Emma and Knut possible.

Excellent, thank you 🙂

looked into this on youtube after reading about the life of thomas merton - awesome video!!! thank you for your research and hard work

I have always adored this movie. I saw it when it first came out and saw it on the big screen. What is so much fun is Henry and Eleanore are my family from long ago. John eventually had one of my grandfathers beheaded. I love the looks of the castle.

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Life is the great divider and DEATH is the great Equaliser.

The term Dog-Head was a way of describing a foreigner, someone you couldn't understand, a Barbarian. Barbarian means someone who you cant understand. A person whose language sounds to you like, "Bar, bar, bar, bar, bar." Like the bark of a dog. St Christopher, and dog-headed men, represented the outsider, the person from the edge or the margins. Ancient people thought of the world differently to us. We live in a post Enlightenment world were everything has been discovered and categorised. They described things differently. And to portray the foreign, they used the image of a dog-headed man. It's not a physical describtion, its a symbolic representation of the chaos of the strange. He's also a hybrid, but I wont go into that as well, but it's a similar idea. A lot of misunderstandings of the ancient world come from us trying to understand it through our modern lens. I recommend watching Jonathan Pageau's video on St Christopher. He explains this much better than I can. ua-cam.com/video/ReZvkYp-CG0/v-deo.htmlsi=OstNUGEEf2RfLicA Edit: I wrote my comment halfway through before you explained these reasons. I'll leave it up as a reminder to wait until the end before commenting. And for others who, like me, jump the gun! I enjoyed your explanation. Thank you.

They put up a tree in this film. That was an anachronism.

Great video, man! You've got a future on here, I believe. Well done 👏

So are you saying there dogmen or not? speak clearly or forever suffer in eternal flames!

My most loved classical song of all time.

We're a knowledgeable family

What happened to the swords?

Brilliant analysis of a favorite, brilliant film.

I think the Norman Period will exist as long as there are so many words of Norman French origin in the English language.