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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.

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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.

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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.

who is the real first norman king of england? sweyn forkbeard or cnut the great or william the conqueror?

I love it💀👻

Literally no part of this does not apply to modern life

God, what a great movie. And your commentary is clever and entertaining as well. Bravo and thank you.

How would they have apples in the winter?

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Okay but the bit at the very end with the fox statue is adorable and made me smile 😊 **points to Robin Hood** “It’s _you!_ 😃” **pets fox’s head** “You’re _famous!_ 😁”

One of my favorite films and I love all the characters. My favorite historical family.

Don't forget Grimbart the Badger as Friar Tuck!

My favorite too for 50 years.

Don’t suppose you’ve any idea what the other film is that I confused with this. Probably from the same period and it’s something to do with the Norman over the Lord, always having the right of the Saxon verging on her wedding night

Thank you

Just found your channel. Don't know if you're still creating content, but I subscribed anyways.

I can understand why a Medieval person might think that a porpoise or whale was a fish, but to try to categorize an otter or beaver as a fish was clearly a way of breaking the rules on a technicality that everyone deep down knew was bullshit. The religious Jews do it too by leaving their house at times when the rules say they shouldn't by putting a wire in front of their house and declaring everything inside it to be part of said house. Muslims do it on Ramadan by sleeping during the day and feasting at night so that they don't need to actually feel the sting of the fast hours, which is the point of Ramadan in the first place. Buddhists in Japan used to do a ceremony to make a woman temporarily a "nun" during childbirth if they thought they might die to secure a better rebirth. Any sufficiently large religion has people trying to break rules on a technicality while flouting the spirit of the rule and then thinking they're really clever.

My family has come to recognize that our surname Levrini means "merchant of rabbits"; "Levr-" from "lepre" meaning "hare", and the "-ini" ending found in Northern Italy in Emilia-Romana (the root of the Family tree; there are over 100 Levrinin´s on current records in Sassuolo alone!) means "merchant of.., or purveyor of ..." In this case my ancestors may have been providing the nobles and villagers with meat, fur, and rabbit´s feet"! In any case, my Brother and I have been collecting rabbit todems that are scattered about inside and outside our homes!

It’s a brilliant mesh of history and personal exploration. James Goldman - who wrote another great Medieval piece, Robin And Marian - grew up in a chaotic alcoholic family and this very deliberately echoes that chaos too.

"Give me that paper, bet your horns I will sign because I need a beer and it's ti66y squeezin' time."

I'd take The Lion in Winter any day over the Shite that passes for medieval fiction today, that seems to think the entirety of Middles Ages was a 1000 year long period were people just dressed in gray, ate mud and beat women for the crime of reading!

A Xmas favorite

Outstanding analysis! Thank you! My favorite film of all time-I’ve held a Boxing Day viewing party every year since 1975.

I just shared the link to your video on my Facebook time line, and this is what I wrote: "For personal biographical reasons, I recently acquired a book about Eleanor of Aquitaine antiquarian: "Aliénor d'Aquitaine" by the French author Régine Pernoud from 1965, published in German in 1976 under the title "Königin der Troubadoure" ("Queen of the Troubadores"). I quickly found out that it is not considered historically quite accurate nowadays, so I googled for the lady in question. In the process, I also came across the film "The Lion in Winter", whose famous version from 1968 is unfortunately not available for free on UA-cam. But what I did find is a really amazingly good private UA-cam video about this film, historically as well as literarily and cinematically appropriate. Its author calls it "The Best (Medieval) Christmas Film!" because its plot is set around Christmas of the year 1183. Try to get to the movie in the original, but this video gives a good overview of the content (without a "spoiler"). Christmas greetings from Germany !

Love that movie 💗 my brother bought the blu ray for me last year ❣️ I don't usually like Hepburn, but I adore Eleanor of Aquitaine, ballsy independent and fearless woman of her time ❣️ all performances were great, oh, apart from whoever played John - nobody told him it wasn't a pantomime I think ❣️❣️

I was 15 the first time I watched this. You can imagine how long it took to recover from my head exploding.